The related jira is PIG-1286. We're waiting for a fix from hadoop team. The methods getOutputLocations() and getOutputNames() don't use counters and they shouldn't return empty list.
On 1/10/11 2:52 PM, "Julien Le Dem" <jul...@ledem.net> wrote: I was calling result("<alias>").getNumberRecords() from a script. I've tried several of the methods but they all returned empty lists: getOutputLocations() getOutputNames() If this is a known issue, is there a JIRA open ? This should work independently of the mode. Julien On 1/10/11 2:41 PM, "Richard Ding" <rd...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: What method did you call to check if a dataset is empty? It's known that the counters don't work in local mode. On 1/9/11 3:15 PM, "Julien Le Dem" <jul...@ledem.net> wrote: However, it works fine in mini cluster. I'm not sure what causes it. The consequence is that I can not check if a dataset is empty in the end condition for the transitive closure in javascript. Julien