Hongchang Li created PIG-3938: --------------------------------- Summary: Type cast doesn't work after flatten result of UDF Key: PIG-3938 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3938 Project: Pig Issue Type: Bug Components: internal-udfs Affects Versions: 0.11.1, 0.12.0 Reporter: Hongchang Li
this ticket was very close to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8828839/how-can-correct-data-types-on-apache-pig-be-enforced. To reproduce the issue, first, we have an UDF to cast map to bag, code almost like(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12476929/group-key-value-of-map-in-pig?answertab=votes#tab-top) {code:title=test.pig} $ cat test.pig register polisan/maptobag.jar; define MAPTOBAG maptobag.MAPTOBAG(); A = load 'polisan/input1.txt' using PigStorage(' ') as (id:chararray, kv:[]); B = foreach A generate id, MAPTOBAG(kv) as to_bag; C = foreach B generate id, flatten(to_bag) as (key:chararray, value:chararray); D = group C by (id, key); E = foreach D generate group, MIN(C.value); dump E; {code} {code:title=polisan/input1.pig} 1 [x#1,y#ab] 1 [x#2,y#cd] {code} then run the pig, I got exception as following: {noformat} 2014-05-15 19:44:52,944 [Thread-2] WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner - job_local_0001 org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 0: Exception while executing (Name: D: Local Rearrange[tuple]{tuple}(false) - scope-42 Operator Key: scope-42): org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2106: Error while computing min in Initial at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.processInput(PhysicalOperator.java:289) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POLocalRearrange.getNextTuple(POLocalRearrange.java:263) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.runPipeline(PigGenericMapBase.java:282) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:277) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:1) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:764) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:370) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:212) Caused by: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2106: Error while computing min in Initial at org.apache.pig.builtin.StringMin$Initial.exec(StringMin.java:81) at org.apache.pig.builtin.StringMin$Initial.exec(StringMin.java:1) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POUserFunc.getNext(POUserFunc.java:352) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POUserFunc.getNextTuple(POUserFunc.java:391) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.getNext(PhysicalOperator.java:334) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.processPlan(POForEach.java:378) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNextTuple(POForEach.java:298) at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.processInput(PhysicalOperator.java:281) ... 8 more Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pig.data.DataByteArray cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.apache.pig.builtin.StringMin$Initial.exec(StringMin.java:73) ... 15 more {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)