Try setting the caster to the HBaseBinaryConverter.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Max Charas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've got a HBase table that is loaded via the HBase Java api like so:
>
> put.add(Bytes.toBytes(HBaseConnection.FAMILY_NAME),
> Bytes.toBytes("value"), Bytes.toBytes(value));
>
> (Where the variable value is a normal java float.)
>
> I proceed to load this with Pig as follows:
> raw = LOAD 'hbase://tableName' USING
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.hbase.HBaseStorage('family:value',
> '-loadKey true -limit 5') AS (id:chararray, value:float);
>
> However when I dump this with:
> dump raw;
>
> I get:
> [main] WARN
>
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher
> - Encountered Warning FIELD_DISCARDED_TYPE_CONVERSION_FAILED 5
> time(s).
> for each float value. The ID's are printed fine.
>
> Im running:
> Apache Hadoop 0.20.2.05
> Pig 0.9.2
> Hbase 0.92.0
>
> My question: Why cant pig handle theses float values? What am I doing
> wrong?
>
> Does anyone have a clue? :)
>
> Best regards,
> Max
>
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