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Santhosh Srinivasan commented on PIG-159:
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What should be the mechanism to represent a bag of unknown? I have the
following options
1. a: bag
2. a: bag {}
3. a: bag {unknown}
4. a: bag {...}
Opinions about each option is given below
1. a: bag - Inconsistent with the declaration of a bag of known types
2. a: bag {} - Users could interpret this as an empty bag
3. a: bag {unknown} - Introduces a new keyword called 'unknown"
4. a: bag {...} - Like C/C++ for variadic number of arguments
What do people think about these options?
> Make changes to the parser to support new types functionality
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>
> Key: PIG-159
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-159
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: impl
> Reporter: Alan Gates
> Assignee: Alan Gates
>
> In order to support the new types functionality described in
> http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigTypesFunctionalSpec, the parse needs to change
> in the following ways:
> 1) AS needs to support types in addition to aliases. So where previously it
> was legal to say:
> a = load 'myfile' as a, b, c;
> it will now also be legal to say
> a = load 'myfile' as a integer, b float, c chararray;
> 2) Non string constants need to be supported. This includes non-string
> atomic types (integer, long, float, double) and the non-atomic types bags,
> tuples, and maps.
> 3) A cast operator needs to be added so that fields can be explicitly casted.
> 4) Changes to DEFINE, to allow users to declare arguments and return types
> for UDFs
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