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Sriranjan Manjunath commented on PIG-942: ----------------------------------------- Here's the complete script: A = load 'map.txt' as (e); B = load 'map.txt' as (f); C = join A by (chararray)e#'100', B by (chararray)f#'100'; dump C; > Maps are not implicitly casted > ------------------------------ > > Key: PIG-942 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-942 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sriranjan Manjunath > > A = load 'foo' as (m) throws the following exception when foo has maps. > java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pig.data.DataByteArray cannot be > cast to java.util.Map > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POMapLookUp.getNext(POMapLookUp.java:98) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POMapLookUp.getNext(POMapLookUp.java:115) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.expressionOperators.POCast.getNext(POCast.java:612) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.processPlan(POForEach.java:278) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POForEach.getNext(POForEach.java:204) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.PhysicalOperator.processInput(PhysicalOperator.java:231) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POLocalRearrange.getNext(POLocalRearrange.java:240) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapBase.runPipeline(PigMapBase.java:249) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapBase.map(PigMapBase.java:240) > at > org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapReduce$Map.map(PigMapReduce.java:93) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:47) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:227) > at > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:2198) > The same works if I explicitly cast m to a map: A = load 'foo' as (m:[]) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.