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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-602: ------------------------------------ This work is already done. The user can propagate the properties via "-propertyfile <filename> from the command line and the retrieve the properties via call to UDFContext.getJobConf. Just need to document this for Pig 0.8.0 release > Pass global configurations to UDF > --------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-602 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-602 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: impl > Reporter: Yiping Han > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > > We are seeking an easy way to pass a large number of global configurations to > UDFs. > Since our application contains many pig jobs, and has a large number of > configurations. Passing configurations through command line is not an ideal > way (i.e. modifying single parameter needs to change multiple command lines). > And to put everything into the hadoop conf is not an ideal way either. > We would like to see if Pig can provide such a facility that allows us to > pass a configuration file in some format(XML?) and then make it available > through out all the UDFs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.