Hi Tim,
We are using elephant-bird 3.0.2 with hadoop-2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.1.1
and pig-0.10.0-cdh4.1.1. We are using the jar available in the maven repo.
Didnt have to build it out.
- Meg
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Tim Sell <trs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When using JsonLoader with Pig 0.10.0
>
> if I have an input.json file that looks like this:
>
> {"date": "2007-08-25", "id": 16}
> {"date": "2007-09-08", "id": 17}
> {"date": "2007-09-15", "id": 18}
>
> And I use
>
> a = LOAD 'input.json' USING JsonLoader('id:int,date:chararray');
> DUMP a;
>
> I get errors when it tries to force the date fields into an integer.
>
> Shouldn't this work independent of the ordering of the schema fields?
> Json writers generally don't make guarantees about the ordering.
>
> One alternative (though annoying) would to be use elephant bird
> instead, but I can't get that to compile against hadoop 2.0.0 and Pig
> 0.10.0.
>
> ~Tim
>
