Yeah, if you are locked into an older version of Pig you don't really have
any option. Lobby EMR to use .11 once it is released :)
2013/2/1 Dexin Wang <wangde...@gmail.com>
> Thanks. That'll be nice unfortunately we are using EMR which only has 0.9
> so that's not an option for us.
>
> Similar question for Python UDF. In my Python UDF, is referencing field by
> index (instead of alias) is the only option I have?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Another way to do it would be to make a helper function that does the
> > following:
> >
> > input.get(getInputSchema().getPosition(alias));
> >
> > Only available in 0.10 and later (I think getInputSchema is in 0.10, at
> > least...may only be in 0.11)
> >
> >
> > 2013/1/15 Dexin Wang <wangde...@gmail.com>
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In my own UDF, is reference a field by index the only way to access a
> > > field?
> > >
> > > The fields are all named and typed before passing into UDF but looks
> > like I
> > > can only do something like this:
> > >
> > > String v1 = (String)input.get(0);
> > > String v2 = (String)input.get(1);
> > > String v3 = (String)input.get(2);
> > >
> > > instead I'd like to do something like this:
> > >
> > > String v1 = (String)input.get("f1");
> > > String v2 = (String)input.get("f2");
> > > String v3 = (String)input.get("f3");
> > >
> > > since I have lots of field and I don't want to tie myself up the
> > > positioning of the fields.
> > >
> > > Any alternative? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Dexin
> > >
> >
>
