Thanks. That'll be nice unfortunately we are using EMR which only has 0.9
so that's not an option for us.
Similar question for Python UDF. In my Python UDF, is referencing field by
index (instead of alias) is the only option I have?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Another way to do it would be to make a helper function that does the
> following:
>
> input.get(getInputSchema().getPosition(alias));
>
> Only available in 0.10 and later (I think getInputSchema is in 0.10, at
> least...may only be in 0.11)
>
>
> 2013/1/15 Dexin Wang <wangde...@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my own UDF, is reference a field by index the only way to access a
> > field?
> >
> > The fields are all named and typed before passing into UDF but looks
> like I
> > can only do something like this:
> >
> > String v1 = (String)input.get(0);
> > String v2 = (String)input.get(1);
> > String v3 = (String)input.get(2);
> >
> > instead I'd like to do something like this:
> >
> > String v1 = (String)input.get("f1");
> > String v2 = (String)input.get("f2");
> > String v3 = (String)input.get("f3");
> >
> > since I have lots of field and I don't want to tie myself up the
> > positioning of the fields.
> >
> > Any alternative? Thanks.
> >
> > Dexin
> >
>
