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Zhijie Shen commented on PIG-1429:
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Does anyone have the opinion of casting DataByteArray to Boolean?
1. DataByteArray can represent a numeric value, such that non-zero value should
be converted to True.
2. DataByteArray can also represent a string, such that the "true" string
should be converted to True.
However, these two cases conflicts to some extent. a raw DataByteArray can be
simultaneously translated into a non-zero numeric or a non-"true" string. Then,
it is hard to say whether it should be converted to True or False.
> Add Boolean Data Type to Pig
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> Key: PIG-1429
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1429
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: data
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Zhijie Shen
> Labels: boolean, gsoc2011, pig, type
> Attachments: working_boolean.patch
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> Original Estimate: 8h
> Remaining Estimate: 8h
>
> Pig needs a Boolean data type. Pig-1097 is dependent on doing this.
> I volunteer. Is there anything beyond the work in src/org/apache/pig/data/
> plus unit tests to make this work?
> This is a candidate project for Google summer of code 2011. More information
> about the program can be found at http://wiki.apache.org/pig/GSoc2011
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