Thnx Alan... it seems like what I exactly need... gonna give it a try :) On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote:
> Take a look at MonitoredUDF, http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.9.2/udf.htmlsearch > on MonitoredUDF. > > Alan. > > On May 31, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Ahmed Sobhi wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to write an EvalFunc UDF... I know that in some rare cases my > > data will cause my udf to take forever... for such cases, I want the udf > to > > just ignore these cases so I was thinking about having my logic timeout > > somehow. > > > > Is there any easy way I can do this? > > > > I know that timeouts would require the use of threads so I'm not sure if > > that would be ok or not. Can anyone provide more info on that? > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Ahmed Sobhi > > http://about.me/humanzz/bio > > -- Best Regards, Ahmed Sobhi http://about.me/humanzz/bio
