Hi Eli,
Take a look at these
https://github.com/mozilla-metrics/akela/tree/master/src/main/java/com/mozilla/pig/eval/json.
We use it to parse a complex json objects.
Thanks,
Harsha
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Eli Finkelshteyn wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
>
>
> I want to parse a string of complex JSON in Pig. Specifically, I want Pig to
> understand my JSON array as a bag instead of as a single chararray. When
> using JsonLoader, I can do this easily by specifying the schema, as in this
> question
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14094768/parsing-complex-json-with-pig).
> Is there any way to either have Pig figure out my schema for me, or to
> specify it when Pig is parsing a string? I've been using JsonStringToMap, but
> can't find a way to specify Schema, or to have it properly understand my JSON
> array is an array and not a single char array. I looked at the code in
> JsonStringToMap, and it looks like it always specifies the schema for me as
> just a map of chararrays, which won't work for anything but the simplest JSON
> of a form like {string: string…}. Any ideas?
>
> Eli
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> Attachments:
> - smime.p7s
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