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Hong Tang commented on PIG-879:
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1) and 3) are kind of equivalent to user, and are preferred for customized
loaders that do not wish pig to do the escaping at all.
> Pig should provide a way for input location string in load statement to be
> passed as-is to the Loader
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>
> Key: PIG-879
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-879
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.3.0
> Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
>
> Due to multiquery optimization, Pig always converts the filenames to
> absolute URIs (see
> http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigMultiQueryPerformanceSpecification - section
> about Incompatible Changes - Path Names and Schemes). This is necessary since
> the script may have "cd .." statements between load or store statements and
> if the load statements have relative paths, we would need to convert to
> absolute paths to know where to load/store from. To do this
> QueryParser.massageFilename() has the code below[1] which basically gives the
> fully qualified hdfs path
>
> However the issue with this approach is that if the filename string is
> something like
> "hdfs://localhost.localdomain:39125/user/bla/1,hdfs://localhost.localdomain:39125/user/bla/2",
> the code below[1] actually translates this to
> hdfs://localhost.localdomain:38264/user/bla/1,hdfs://localhost.localdomain:38264/user/bla/2
> and throws an exception that it is an incorrect path.
>
> Some loaders may want to interpret the filenames (the input location string
> in the load statement) in any way they wish and may want Pig to not make
> absolute paths out of them.
>
> There are a few options to address this:
> 1) A command line switch to indicate to Pig that pathnames in the script
> are all absolute and hence Pig should not alter them and pass them as-is to
> Loaders and Storers.
> 2) A keyword in the load and store statements to indicate the same intent
> to pig
> 3) A property which users can supply on cmdline or in pig.properties to
> indicate the same intent.
> 4) A method in LoadFunc - relativeToAbsolutePath(String filename, String
> curDir) which does the conversion to absolute - this way Loader can chose to
> implement it as a noop.
> Thoughts?
>
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