Eyal Allweil created DATAFU-130: ----------------------------------- Summary: Add left outer join macro described in the DataFu guide Key: DATAFU-130 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DATAFU-130 Project: DataFu Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Eyal Allweil
In our [guide|http://datafu.incubator.apache.org/blog/2013/09/04/datafu-1-0.html], a macro is described for making a three-way left outer join conveniently. We can add this macro to DataFu to make it even easier to use. The macro's code is as follows: {noformat} DEFINE left_outer_join(relation1, key1, relation2, key2, relation3, key3) returns joined { cogrouped = COGROUP $relation1 BY $key1, $relation2 BY $key2, $relation3 BY $key3; $joined = FOREACH cogrouped GENERATE FLATTEN($relation1), FLATTEN(EmptyBagToNullFields($relation2)), FLATTEN(EmptyBagToNullFields($relation3)); } (we would obviously want to add a test for this, too) {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)