Typo, sorry. I should refrain from emailing past 10pm (but Open Source
would never be possible for me in that case :)
Yes, VALUELIST is a good to have feature. Please, if you could, add me to
the watch list once you have JIRA up.
Thanks,
Prashant
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
> > >
> >
>
