In o.a.p.scripting check out the Pig and BoundScript classes.  These are 
designed for use with scripting languages, but can be used equally well with 
Java.  After you have bound a script with the Pig object, you can call 
illustrate on it.

Alan.

On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Russell Jurney wrote:

> Maybe illustrate isn't the right word, but what I want are sample records
> from the job.
> 
> Regarding illustrate, is there a way to fire illustrate through an API?
> That way I can get at it with a web app.  Parsing grunt is way hackish.
> 
> On Thursday, December 29, 2011, Dmitriy Ryaboy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am not sure what you mean. You can just replace all stores with
>> illustrates and run the job, right? It's too late to be generating
> previews
>> when you've already payed the cost of running the whole job...
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Russell Jurney
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> 
>>> I want to recreate PigPen as a web app. Can to has Illustrate or some
>>> kind of sample records in PigStats? That is all that is missing to
>>> make this trivial.
>>> 
>>> Looking at this:
>>> 
>>> 
> http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.8.1/api/org/apache/pig/tools/pigstats/PigStats.html
>>> 
>>> Russell Jurney
>>> twitter.com/rjurney
>>> [email protected]
>>> datasyndrome.com
>>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Russell Jurney
> twitter.com/rjurney
> [email protected]
> datasyndrome.com

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