Yes, this was somewhere around Tez 0.4 timeframe. Patch would have to be rebased.
~Rajesh.B On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Bikas Saha <bi...@apache.org> wrote: > Found the JIRA - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-1100 > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bikas Saha <bi...@apache.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, April 30, 2017 5:46:42 PM > *To:* user@tez.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: How to get user input in the form of a DAG in a text file > > > IIRC a long time back, Rajesh Balamohan had prototyped something like this > to provide a DAG definition via a text file (xml) I think. > > > This would be nice to get done because then it could provide a simple way > for higher level apps to generate Tez DAGs for execution without linking > against Tez programatically. And also be quite convenient for visual ETL > tools. > > > Bikas > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Abdul Qadeer <qadeer.qad...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:20 PM > *To:* user@tez.apache.org > *Subject:* How to get user input in the form of a DAG in a text file > > Hi, > > For a pipeline workload, I want to use the > Input-process-output based abstraction for the > end user. End user will need to provide his > pipeline DAG as input. One option is to use > Dot language for user input and then map it > to Tez DAG API > (http://www.graphviz.org/content/dot-language). > > > My question is: > > Is there some facility available in Tez to > get DAG based input in text format from > user? Or > if you could suggest me something better > than my current dot based plan? > > > Thanks, > -Abdul >
