+1, currently the vertex name is not clear for users to know what this vertex do. Hive maybe have similar issue.
Best Regard, Jeff Zhang On 4/9/15, 2:57 AM, "Rohini Palaniswamy" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > Currently the pig job on DAG view looks like this - >https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12708262/Graph2.png - >which only makes sense to pig developers and probably few advanced users. >We wanted to also show custom data (aliases and features) on the pop-up >that appears when we hover over each vertex in >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4429. We are looking at adding >alias and features in the custom data. > >I was under the impression that vertex has a description field and setting >it will show in the UI. But realized it does not have one. Is there an >existing way to do this or need to create a new jira? > >For eg: >A = LOAD 'data'; >B = GROUP A by $0; >C = FOREACH B generate group, COUNT(B); >STORE B into 'out'; > >will have two vertices and Vertex 1 will need to show "Aliases : A" and >Vertex 2 - "Aliases: B, C Features: GROUPBY". Note that for bigger pig >scripts the aliases could run into multiple lines and the UI popup will >also have to wrap the text and resize accordingly. > >Regards, >Rohini
