No informative error message on parse problem ---------------------------------------------
Key: PIG-1462 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1462 Project: Pig Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Reporter: Ankur Consider the following script in = load 'data' using PigStorage() as (m:map[]); tags = foreach in generate m#'k1' as (tagtuple: tuple(chararray)); dump tags; This throws the following error message that does not really say that this is a bad declaration org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException: ERROR 1000: Error during parsing. Encountered "" at line 2, column 38. Was expecting one of: at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.parseQuery(PigServer.java:1170) at org.apache.pig.PigServer$Graph.registerQuery(PigServer.java:1114) at org.apache.pig.PigServer.registerQuery(PigServer.java:425) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processPig(GruntParser.java:737) at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:324) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:162) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:138) at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.exec(Grunt.java:89) at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:391) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.