Thanks, Shwetha, very helpful!

Just created OOZIE-2084 and OOZIE-2085.

- J.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Shwetha GS <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, that looks like a bug. Can you please file a jira with these details?
>
> Its possible to extend oozie EL functions and provide a custom EL function.
> Sorry, I couldn't find the documentation. You can file a jira for that as
> well.
>
> In Apache falcon project, we have extended these EL functions and provided
> EL functions like:
> 1. currentMonth(day, hr, min) - current month resolves to the beginning of
> current month with respect to nominal time. day, hr and min are offsets
> with respect to the resolved time
> 2. lastMonth(day, hour, min) - last month resolves to the beginning of
> previous month with respect to nominal time. day, hr and min are offsets
> with respect to the resolved time
>
> For your usecase, you can use start as lastMonth(0, 0, 0) and end as
> currentMonth(0, -1, 0). These start and end functions need not be changed
> even if you change the nominal time to any other time in the same month.
> The code for this is at
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-falcon/tree/master/oozie-el-extensions
> .
> You can either use this or use it as a reference to write your own EL
> functions. You need to include the EL implementation jar in oozie
> server(libext) and oozie-site.xml should have the corresponding configs.
>
> -Shwetha
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:59 PM, J. McConnell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Idris Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > If the intention is to read hourly data for a month, then the simplest
> > way
> > > is to specify like this.
> > >
> > >         <data-in name="input" dataset="logs">
> > >           <start-instance>${coord:current( -(coord:daysInMonth(0) -
> > > 1)*24 )}</start-instance>
> > >           <end-instance>${coord:current(0)}</end-instance>
> > >         </data-in>
> > >
> > > This takes care of any month, however special handling is required for
> > > daylight saving timezone, for details refer the coordinator functional
> > spec
> > > here.
> >
> >
> > Yes, that is indeed the intention and this was my first thought. However,
> > it is the special handling for daylight saving time that I am
> specifically
> > looking to avoid. I don't see anything in the coordinator functional spec
> > that will help with this. The coord:hoursInDay() function is great, but
> > what is needed in this case is a coord:hoursInMonth() function.
> >
> > That said, I thought the approach of using the coord:offset() function
> > would be a good way of doing this, but I've hit what appears to be a bug.
> > Can anyone confirm that this is indeed a bug? Does anyone know of a good
> > workaround, either with coord:daysInMonth()/hoursInDay() or some other
> way?
> > Is it possible to extend the EL language locally to support an
> > hoursInMonth() method?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
> >
> > - J.
> >
>
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