Thanks. I upgraded to Pig 0.6 (was using Cloudera's 0.5.x) and used the UDFContext class, but this looks much more convenient.
-Mark On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > FileLocalizer.openDFSFile() should do what you want. > > Alan. > > On May 28, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Mark Stetzer wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I've seen this question asked on the mailing list in the past, but not >> recently. Does anyone know of a way to read data from HDFS within a >> UDF? I saw some discussion about a year ago that mentioned if a UDF >> implemented org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable it would get a copy of >> the Configuration object, but either that wasn't implemented, or I'm >> having troubles with it. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Mark > >
