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Daniel Dai commented on PIG-3293:
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Must be the "caster" in D's POCast is null. Can you attach MyLoader?
> Casting fails after Union from two data sources&loaders
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>
> Key: PIG-3293
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3293
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Koji Noguchi
> Priority: Minor
>
> Script similar to
> {noformat}
> A = load 'data1' using MyLoader() as (a:bytearray);
> B = load 'data2' as (a:bytearray);
> C = union onschema A,B;
> D = foreach C generate (chararray)a;
> Store D into './out';
> {noformat}
> fails with
> java.lang.Exception: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException:
> ERROR 1075: Received a bytearray from the UDF. Cannot determine how to
> convert the bytearray to string.
> Both MyLoader and PigStorage use the default Utf8StorageConverter.
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