There's a patch for this on the Jira I believe. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1749
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > i'd be grateful if you could help me with this little but quite annoying > detail > > When i pass specifications to loadFunc, the string argument in case of wide > input specifications can become quite long > and i would like to break and carry the quoted string argument over on to > the next line. (Pig 0.7.0 ). Sometimes it's as long 7-8 screens ( > and that's on a wide monitor already). > > i tried regular java syntax like 'A'+'B" as well as standard CONCAT > function, none parses. > E.g. trying using concat with a custom load func > > INCREMENTAL = load '$input' using > com.inadco.ecoadapters.pig.HBaseProtobufLoader( > CONCAT('<long-long-input-spec>', 'long-long-input-spec2')); > > causes a parsing error > > Error during parsing. Encountered " <IDENTIFIER> "CONCAT "" at line 15, > column 57. > Was expecting one of: > <QUOTEDSTRING> ... > ")" ... > > > it looks like 'using loadFunc()' syntax doesn't even consider use of > expressions for its arguments. > > Any workaround for this? > > Thank you. > -Dmitriy >
