Hi Thomas, This isn't a complete answer, but take a look at mock.Storage that Julien wrote to make testing easy:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/builtin/mock/Storage.java D On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Thomas Schlosser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > does anybody know what the easiest/best way is to get the result of an > arbitrary calculation, which is done in Java, into a Pig relation? > At the end, I think I would like to have something like: > A = LOAD '' USING CustomCalculationLoadFunc('$paramA', '$paramB'); > > Note: Input file/directory is empty, since the input is configurable via > external properties. > > Since I have no distributed input, e.g., in the HDFS, the resulting Job > should -- in my opinion -- run as a single map task. > Is there another mechanism in Pig or any special InputFormat that can be > used? > I also had the problem that there is a mechanism that does not allow to have > empty locations passed to the LoadFunc. > Any suggestions how to handle this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Thomas
