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Santhosh Srinivasan commented on PIG-549: ----------------------------------------- Sure, we should allow that. I will mark this an enhancement request. > type checking with order-by following user-defined function > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-549 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-549 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: types_branch > Environment: type checker fails here: > A = load ...; > B = foreach A generate UDF1(*), UDF2(); > C = order B by $1; > where UDF2() is of type EvalFunc<Integer>. > I tried all sorts of things, including overriding outputSchema() of the UDF > to specify Integer, and also adding "as x : int" to the foreach command -- in > all cases I get the same error. > Reporter: Christopher Olston > Fix For: types_branch > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: Unsupported root type in > LOForEach:LOUserFunc > at > org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.validators.TypeCheckingVisitor.visit(TypeCheckingVisitor.java:2267) > at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.LOForEach.visit(LOForEach.java:121) > at org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.LOForEach.visit(LOForEach.java:40) > at > org.apache.pig.impl.plan.DependencyOrderWalker.walk(DependencyOrderWalker.java:68) > at org.apache.pig.impl.plan.PlanVisitor.visit(PlanVisitor.java:51) > at > org.apache.pig.impl.plan.PlanValidator.validateSkipCollectException(PlanValidator.java:101) > at > org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.validators.TypeCheckingValidator.validate(TypeCheckingValidator.java:40) > at > org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.validators.TypeCheckingValidator.validate(TypeCheckingValidator.java:30) > at > org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.validators.LogicalPlanValidationExecutor.validate(LogicalPlanValidationExecutor.java:79) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.compileLp(PigServer.java:684) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.compileLp(PigServer.java:655) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.store(PigServer.java:433) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.store(PigServer.java:421) > at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:384) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.