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Alan Gates commented on PIG-1777:
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Looks interesting.  Extending the scripting UDFs to include load and store is a 
logical next step. 

One question, why tie this to Sequence files?  Why not let the user specify any 
input format that can return a key and value?

> LoadFunc in a scripting language
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>
>                 Key: PIG-1777
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1777
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: John Meagher
>         Attachments: Initial-scripted-load.patch, Initial-scripted-load2.patch
>
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> Provide a mechanism for loading custom objects from a Sequence file with the 
> conversion from the object to Pig objects happening in a scripting language.  

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