I look into the return data bag as an option. The problem is the Loader interface require me to return a Tuple object.
public Tuple getNext() throws IOException { but the DataBag interface is not a derive class of Tuple so this means I will need to change the internal code for pig for my loader to return a bag of tuples. Right? John On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:00 PM, John Hui <john.m....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pig Users, > > I am currently writing a UDF loader. In one of my use case, one line in > the input stream results in multiple tuples. Has anyone encounter or solve > this issue on their end. > > The current structure of the code getNext method only return tuple but I > want it to return a List<tuple>. Let me know if there's use case out there > like mine, I am coding it up to return List<tuple> which is more more > flexible than return only one tuple. > > Thanks, > > John >