You can upload a new patch to PIG-2641. I agree that we should improve the built-in JsonLoader rather than adding a new one to piggybank. You might want to ask Russell whether it is okay for you to take over his jira. I can review/commit your patch whenever it's ready.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Jonathan Packer <jpac...@mortardata.com>wrote: > Hi, a few months ago I had submitted a patch to update JsonLoader to handle > arbitrary input json without an accompanying schema file (the were options > to specify a schema string with intelligent handling of missing/extra > fields, or to load everything as a map). > > Patch is the most recent one at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1914 > > That was against Piggybank. @rjurney said he wanted to merge it with some > stuff he did, and switch it to be against the builtins. I see some > JSON-related work at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2641 and an > unresolved bug https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2949 (which my > JsonLoader would fix), but it looks like the JsonLoader in trunk still > hasn't been updated in trunk. > > So what's the status on this? I think its important to have a robust loader > for such a common format, and I'd be happy to provide a new patch against > the builtin JsonLoader. >
