Hi,

I'm using pig 0.11.0 that comes with CDH 4.4.0.

Thanks,
Skanda


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Skanda <skanda.ganapa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a use case to get the get N distinct url's based on the number of
> hits and their latest timestamp. Pls find below the snippet of the pig
> script that I have written to do this.
>
> prunedUrlData = FOREACH urlPatternData GENERATE (url_pattern is
> null?url:url_pattern) AS
> url,domid,urlkey,urllen,puid,nwid,lmd,rc,punam,nwnam,ispub,com.xxx.GetDomainStorageLimit(nwid)
> AS *domainlimit*;
>
> group_by_Domain_Url = GROUP prunedUrlData BY domid;
>
> rankedUrlByDomain = FOREACH group_by_Domain_Url
> {
> distinct_url = DISTINCT prunedUrlData;
> url_rank_dom = ORDER distinct_url BY lmd DESC,rc DESC;
> url_domain_limit = LIMIT url_rank_dom *domainlimit*;
> GENERATE FLATTEN(url_domain_limit);
> };
>
>
> The only problem that I have now is the domainlimit variable that I'm
> passing to the LIMIT statement @ runtime. I'm getting the following
> exception :
>
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to evaluate Limit expression: NULL
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POLimit.getNext(POLimit.java:97)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.getNext(PhysicalOperator.java:432)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POProject.processInputBag(POProject.java:583)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.PORelationToExprProject.getNext(PORelationToExprProject.java:107)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.getNext(PhysicalOperator.java:334)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.processPlan(POForEach.java:372)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNext(POForEach.java:297)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.runPipeline(PigGenericMapReduce.java:465)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.processOnePackageOutput(PigGenericMapReduce.java:433)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:413)
>       at 
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapReduce$Reduce.reduce(PigGenericMapReduce.java:257)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer.run(Reducer.java:164)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.runNewReducer(ReduceTask.java:610)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:444)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:268)
>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>       at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416)
>       at 
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1438)
>       at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:262)
>
> If I use a constant for the LIMIT, it works fine. I printed the 
> "group_by_Domain_Url" to see if i'm getting the domainlimit, and I'm able to 
> see a value.
>
> But when i apply it to LIMIT, it says "Unable to evaluate Limit expression: 
> NULL". Where am I going wrong?
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Skanda
>

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