Hi Prashant,
I needed a way to control the hadoop configuration based on the deployed 
environment. I found a work-around by putting empty core-site.xml in the 
classpath and providing properties in the constructor.
Thanks for your help!
-Rakesh

> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:27:03 -0800
> Subject: Re: Setting HDFS configuration in PigServer
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> 
> I think I jumped the gun here, I was under the impression you want to
> override certain properties.
> 
> In MapReduce mode, Pig always looks for "hadoop-site.xml" or
> "core-site.xml". I am not aware of anyway to bypass this.
> 
> Curious, why do you want to not provide the config files?
> 
> Thanks,
> Prashant
> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, rakesh sharma
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Prashant,
> > I tried it before posting the question. Here is the exception that I get
> > when "new PigServer(ExecType.MAPREDUCE, properties)" gets executed. Note
> > that properties has the value of property "fs.default.name":
> > org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 4010: Cannot
> > find hadoop configurations in classpath (neither hadoop-site.xml nor
> > core-site.xml was found in the classpath).If you plan to use local mode,
> > please put -x local option in command line        at
> > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.init(HExecutionEngine.java:169)
> >        at
> > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine.init(HExecutionEngine.java:134)
> >        at org.apache.pig.impl.PigContext.connect(PigContext.java:183)
> >  at org.apache.pig.PigServer.<init>(PigServer.java:226)        at
> > org.apache.pig.PigServer.<init>(PigServer.java:215)        at
> > org.apache.pig.PigServer.<init>(PigServer.java:211)
> > Any suggestions?
> > Thanks,Rakesh
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:00:24 -0800
> > > Subject: Re: Setting HDFS configuration in PigServer
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > To: [email protected]
> > >
> > > Rakesh,
> > >
> > > You could use
> > >
> > http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.1/api/org/apache/pig/PigServer.html#PigServer%28org.apache.pig.ExecType,%20java.util.Properties%29
> > >
> > > You can specify your own properties via this constructor.
> > >
> > > Something like,
> > >
> > > Properties properties = PropertiesUtil.loadDefaultProperties();  //If
> > > you want to load defaults
> > > properties.set("foo","bar");
> > > PigServer pigServer = new PigServer(ExecType.MAPREDUCE, properties);
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Prashant
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:56 PM, rakesh sharma
> > > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I am using PigServer to execute pig scripts. It picks up the HDFS
> > > > configuration from hadoop configuration files residing in the
> > classpath. I
> > > > am wondering if there is a way to pass these values to PigServer and
> > > > eliminate the need of having HDFS configuration files.
> > > > Thanks,Rakesh
> >
> >
                                          

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