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Eyal Allweil commented on DATAFU-130:
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I think this is a good Jira issue to put in the [Apache Help Wanted
site|https://helpwanted.apache.org/]. If there's no objection, I'll add it
there.
> 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
> Labels: macro, newbie
>
> 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}
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