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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2641:
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Gunther's points are good ones, Russell. Should definitely be taken into
account.
I was thinking about easier ways to deal with vararg issues, and I think I
thought of one. Instead of using getArgToFunc, on the front end in
outputSchema, you can just verify that the schema is homogenous and concat-able
(i.e. all strings, all longs, whatever). If you want to be really fancy, you
can find the code that defines whether or not a type is coercible and base it
on the first argument (i.e. string long long could be concat-able as all
strings).
I've realized now that the existence of getInputSchema largely makes the
getArgToFunc construct irrelevant except in the case where you need frontend
specific information passed to the backend via the constructor based on the
type of the input (which is not the case here).
Then on the back end, you lazy initialize based on the getInputSchema schema.
You can constructor a concatenator based on the Schema which actually does the
concatenating, and then just run every argument against it (i.e. if you detect
String, String, String you initialize a StringConcatenator). There are a couple
of ways you could design this, and this is where you could take into account
coercion rules.
Bam, no deep changes necessary to support varargs.
> Create toJSON function for all complex types: tuples, bags and maps
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PIG-2641
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2641
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: piggybank
> Affects Versions: 0.12
> Environment: Foggy. Damn foggy.
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Russell Jurney
> Labels: chararray, fun, happy, input, json, output, pants, pig,
> piggybank, string, wonderdog
> Fix For: 0.12
>
> Attachments: PIG-2641.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 96h
> Remaining Estimate: 96h
>
> It is a travesty that there are no UDFs in Piggybanks that, given an
> arbitrary Pig datatype, return a JSON string of same. I intend to fix this
> problem.
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