Hi, Are you getting NPE on the front-end or the back-end? Sounds like jobConf is not added to UDFContext, which is expected on the front-end. Please see the comments in getJobConf() and addJobConf() in the source code:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/UDFContext.java Thanks, Cheolsoo On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Henning Kropp <henning.kr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I am stuck. In my UDF (Java) extends EvalFunc the following code throws and > NPE in exec(), when executed in -x mapred mode: > > Configuration jobConf = UDFContext.getUDFContext().getJobConf(); > System.err.println(jobConf.toString()); > > I did not find any useful information as why my JobConf is always null. All > I find is that this is the right way to get the JobConf in a UDF and that > the behavior of what is returned when running locally (jira issue). > > Any ideas? I am running it on a very old Hadoop version 0.20.2 Are there > some known issues? I use Pig 0.11.1 > > Many thanks in advanced > > PS: Just found someone with the same issue > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18795008/accessing-hdfs-from-pig-udf >
