Sweet. I don't have a JIRA, because I wanted to flesh out the functionality
that people found useful.
KEYLIST doesn't make a ton of set, as Maps keys are already
distinct...VALUESET and VALUELIST totally make sense though. We should
probably make a JIRA and brainstorm there. Will do that shortly.
2012/3/15 Prashant Kommireddi <prash1...@gmail.com>
> Hi Jon,
>
> I think an "INVERSE_MAP" would be a good use case. Also, instead of (or in
> addition to) KEYSET we should have KEYLIST which does not eliminate
> duplicate values.
>
> I would like to help on this if needed, please let me know if you have a
> JIRA against this.
>
> Thanks,
> Prashant
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hey all! In the last couple of weeks I've found myself wanting for better
> > map support in pig. I'd be willing to do the work, just wanted to get a
> > sense of what people thought might be useful. And maybe some of this
> > exists!
> >
> > TOBAG - given a Map, outputs {(key,value)}
> > KEYSET - returns {(key)} where it is unique
> > VALUESET - returns {(value)} where it is unique
> > CONCAT - takes some number of Maps, and merges them together. The first
> > one's values will override the rest. Or the latest one will. Whatevs.
> >
> > Not sure what else would be useful. I'm including user@ on this because
> > I'd
> > love to hear any map manipulation features you crave. Maps, up to know,
> > have been pretty 2nd class and I'd love to help change that.
> >
> > Jon
> >
>
