Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply. Since this is the case then JavaDocs of the
class needs to be fixed (see
http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.10.0/api/org/apache/pig/backend/hadoop/hbase/HBaseStorage.html).
Also, I faced a bug that I worked around by explicit casting. For some
reason all the objects passed to putNext are of type DataByteArray,
while the schema reports their correct types (tuple(string, int, int),
long). This causes a lot of ClassCastExceptions because DataByteArray
cannot be cast to any other type. I worked around this by passing
everything to the STORE as a DataByteArray.
Cheers!
Younos
Quoting Bill Graham <[email protected]>:
The STORE command doesn't take the AS clause, that's to define the schema
at LOAD time. When storing, just prepare your relation with the the desired
schema and then STORE it without the AS.
You can do all the transformations you need to before the STORE and Pig
will combine them all into as few logical processing steps as possible, so
no need to worry about specifying many transformation statements.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I'm using HBaseStorage and I want to change the layout of the schema
before storage. Specifically I want to group some values into a tuple (thus
reducing the number of repetitions of the row and column keys).
Even though the JavaDoc gives an example that uses AS schema Grunt
complains that it is not parsable. Here's what I am trying:
STORE dataToStore INTO 'hbase://tableName' USING HBaseStorage('cf:tuple,
cf:date') AS TOTUPLE(val1, val2, val3), date;
Is this possible? Or do I have to do the transformation in a separate step:
dataTransformed = FOREACH dataToStore GENERATE TOTUPLE(val1, val2, val3),
date;
In case of the latter, can Pig be told to merge this step with the next
one? I tried a nested FOREACH where I can have an assignment operation, but
I quickly found out that STORE is not supported within the FOREACH.. what
was I thinking :).
Thanks!
-- Younos
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