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Daniel Dai updated PIG-3133:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 0.12.0)
                   0.13.0
    
> Revamp algebraic interface to actually return classes
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>
>                 Key: PIG-3133
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3133
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jonathan Coveney
>             Fix For: 0.13.0
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> The current algebraic interface is a bit weird to work with. It would make a 
> lot more sense to let people return Class<? extends EvalFunc<Tuple>> or what 
> have you, or even a FuncSpec, but the current string based approach 
> circumvents the whole point of using Java and is annoying. I think we should 
> have an abstract EFInitial, EFIntermediate, EFFinal which implemented the 
> exec function for the user, but in terms of a simpler, clearer interface. 
> This way if people really want the old way they can, but we can present them 
> something less ugly.
> This would also be a good time to clarify the contracts of Algebraics and 
> simplify them (the initial function's "a tuple which contains a bag which 
> contains 1 tuple" is super whack).
> If anyone wants to work on this let me know because this is the sort of thing 
> I will probably bang out when procrastinating something else.

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