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Russell Jurney commented on PIG-2948:
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You make a good point: the benefit of a type only comes once there are
sufficient UDFs supporting image/audio/video/document load/store/modify
operations that you want to pull them into builtins and add a type. We've seen
this with boolean and datetime types.
Once there are assets for Pig/images in contrib, the benefit of having
operations as pig builtins is that you can specify pipelines for multimedia
processing when there are large numbers of multimedia assets. I get the feeling
that Pig might do well in certain circles as a way to process multimedia
inputs, and a cohesive, organized syntax would facilitate ease of use and
productivity.
But the way to start isn't to being a new type. It is to explore working with
some type of one of these types and go from there. I'm going to do that. I put
this ticket here as a long-term goal, because I believe there is demand. I will
link appropriate tickets, knowledge and tools here as I edit the wiki.
> Add multimedia support to Pig: types for images, audio, video common document
> formats and accompanying internal-UDFs
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> Key: PIG-2948
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2948
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: data, documentation, e2e harness, grunt, impl,
> internal-udfs, parser, piggybank, tools
> Environment: Pie in the Sky.
> Inside my head. Someone mentioned this last evening and I decided to JIRA it.
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Russell Jurney
> Priority: Minor
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> Pig should have support for multimedia: images, audio, video, common document
> formats. By continuing to add additional types, Pig can outpace other tools.
> Ideally a java-based library that can already handle these formats would be
> used to transform them to Pig relations.
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