Ok you can build it from my EB branch: https://github.com/dvryaboy/elephant-bird/tree/add_locationtuple_loader
You will want to build the elephant-bird-pig package, and the loader is com.twitter.elephantbird.pig.load.LocationAsTuple Here's the javadoc: /** * Parses the "location" into a tuple by splitting on a delimiter, and returns it. * Handy for turning scalars into relations. For example: * <pre>{@code * languages = load 'en,fr,jp' using LocationAsTuple(','); * -- languages is ('en', 'fr', 'jp') * language_bag = foreach languages generate flatten(TOBAG(*)); * -- language_bag is a relation with three rows, ('en'), ('fr'), ('jp') * }</pre> */ On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Dmitriy Ryaboy <dvrya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a loader that does exactly that. Let me see about dropping into Elephant-Bird. > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> >> I agree this would be useful for debugging, but I'd go about it a different way. Rather than add new syntax as you propose, it seems we could easily create an inline loader, so your script would look something like: >> >> A = load '{(Hello), (World)}' using InlineLoader(); >> dump A; >> >> Alan. >> >> On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Michael Malak wrote: >> >> > I'm new to Pig, and it looks like there is no provision to declare relations inline in a Pig script (without LOADing from an external file)? >> > >> > Based on >> > http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html#Constants >> > I would have thought the following would constitute "Hello World" for Pig: >> > >> > A = {('Hello'),('World')}; >> > DUMP A; >> > >> > But I get a syntax error. The ability to inline relations would be useful for debugging. Is this limitation by design, or is it just not implemented yet? >> > >> >