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Alan Gates commented on PIG-1758:
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bq. LoadCaster interface provides methods to cast complex types – but they are
silently ignored by Pig
So before this patch casting of bytearray to tuple or bag fails in 0.8? That
is definitely a fix worth back porting.
The addition of deep casting I have a hard time thinking of as a bug since we
have never it in the past.
Since this is relatively small and did not work in the past I am ok with back
porting it. I do think we should add something in the release notes that says
the feature is experimental.
I have a concern in general about when we back port features and when we do
not, but I will start a thread on that on the dev list.
> Deep cast of complex type
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>
> Key: PIG-1758
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1758
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: impl
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Daniel Dai
> Assignee: Daniel Dai
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
> Attachments: PIG-1758-1.patch, PIG-1758-2.patch
>
>
> Pig does not handle deep cast from bag -> bag, tuple -> tuple. Eg, the
> following script does not produce desired result:
> {code}
> a = load '1.txt' as (a0:bag{t:tuple(i0:double)});
> b = foreach a generate (bag{tuple(int)})a0;
> dump b;
> {code}
> The result tuple still contain int inside tuple of bag.
> PIG-613 fix the case we cast bytearray -> bag/tuple, we take complex type
> including inner types, but bag->bag, tuple->tuple is still not effective.
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