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Julien Le Dem commented on PIG-2493:
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please resolve this ticket and open a separate one for changes.
> UNION causes casting issues
> ---------------------------
>
> Key: PIG-2493
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2493
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.9.1, 0.10.0
> Reporter: Anitha Raju
> Assignee: Vivek Padmanabhan
> Fix For: 0.9.3, 0.11, 0.10.1
>
> Attachments: PIG-2493_2.patch, PIG-2493-3.patch, PIG-2493.patch
>
>
> Hi,
> For the below script,
> {code}
> A = load '/user/anithar/ip' as (a);
> B = load '/user/anithar/ip1' as (a);
> C = union A , B ;
> D = foreach C generate (chararray)a;
> dump D;
> {code}
> it gives casting error at runtime
> {code}
> org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 1075: Received a
> bytearray from the UDF. Cannot determine how to convert the bytearray to
> string.
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POCast.getNext(POCast.java:660)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.getNext(PhysicalOperator.java:322)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.processPlan(POForEach.java:332)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNext(POForEach.java:284)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.runPipeline(PigGenericMapBase.java:267)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:262)
> at
> org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigGenericMapBase.map(PigGenericMapBase.java:64)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:764)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:370)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1082)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249)
> {code}
> It looks like in POCast.java the value of "funcSpec" is not getting any
> value(stays null when there is a UNION involved), causing "caster" to get
> null and thus the exception.
> The same works in 0.8 without any issue.
> Regards,
> Anitha
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