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Milind Bhandarkar commented on PIG-832:
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Olga, what I am saying is to have a default import list: which contains default
UDFs (tokenize, Max, Min, flatten), followed by piggybank contribs. And the
same list can be added to / overridden on the command-line. This has several
advantages. Pig built-ins do not have to be reserved words, and can be
overridden. For example, recent mails on pig-users have mentioned that
tokenize+flatten should be a single udf. This can be done by providing a
flatten (which is null), and tokenize, which does tokenize+flatten, and
existing scripts will still work. This simplifies pig grammar as well. Users
can create udf libraries, and use them with:
{code}
java -Dimport.list += `cat my-udf-lib.import`
{code}
Thoughts ?
> Make import list configurable
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> Key: PIG-832
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-832
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.2.0
> Reporter: Olga Natkovich
> Assignee: Daniel Dai
> Fix For: 0.3.0
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> Currently, it is hardwired in PigContext.
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