Sure, just did https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3554
Kind regards 2013/10/30 Cheolsoo Park <piaozhe...@gmail.com> > Indeed. Do you mind filing a jira? > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Henning Kropp <henning.kr...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Wow, I was pretty sure to have tested it, but apparently not. The reason > > for the NPE seems to be the @MonitoredUDF > > > > You can reproduced it with the following code: > > > > import java.io.IOException; > > import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; > > import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; > > import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc; > > import org.apache.pig.builtin.MonitoredUDF; > > import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple; > > import org.apache.pig.impl.util.UDFContext; > > > > @MonitoredUDF(timeUnit = TimeUnit.HOURS, duration = 3, intDefault = 1) > > public class TestJobConf extends EvalFunc<Tuple> { > > > > public TestJobConf() { > > } > > > > @Override > > public Tuple exec(Tuple tuple) throws IOException { > > if (tuple == null || tuple.size() == 0) { > > return null; > > } > > Configuration jobConf; > > jobConf = UDFContext.getUDFContext().getJobConf(); > > System.err.println(jobConf.toString()); > > return null; > > } > > > > } > > > > Log from the Task: > > > > 2013-10-30 19:24:09,516 ERROR TestJobConf: > > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > 2013-10-30 19:24:10,388 ERROR TestJobConf: > > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > 2013-10-30 19:24:10,880 ERROR TestJobConf: > > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > 2013-10-30 19:24:11,512 ERROR TestJobConf: > > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > 2013-10-30 19:24:12,264 ERROR TestJobConf: > > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > > > Without the MonitoredUDF Annotation the log output is: > > > > Configuration: core-default.xml, core-site.xml, mapred-default.xml, > > mapred-site.xml, hdfs-default.xml, hdfs-site.xml, ..... > > > > Seems like a bug. > > > > > > 2013/10/30 Pradeep Gollakota <pradeep...@gmail.com> > > > > > Are you able to post your UDF (or at least a sanitized version)? > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Henning Kropp < > henning.kr...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > thanks for your reply. I read about the expected behavior on the > > > front-end > > > > and I am getting the NPE on the back-end. The Mappers log the > Exception > > > > during Execution. > > > > > > > > I am currently digging through debug messages. What to look out for? > > > There > > > > are bunch of > > > > > > > > [main] DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration - > > java.io.IOException: > > > > config() > > > > > > > > log messages. But I recall them as being "normal" for reasons I don't > > > > remember. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/10/30 Cheolsoo Park <piaozhe...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Are you getting NPE on the front-end or the back-end? Sounds like > > > jobConf > > > > > is not added to UDFContext, which is expected on the front-end. > > Please > > > > see > > > > > the comments in getJobConf() and addJobConf() in the source code: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/trunk/src/org/apache/pig/impl/util/UDFContext.java > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Cheolsoo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Henning Kropp < > > > henning.kr...@gmail.com > > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am stuck. In my UDF (Java) extends EvalFunc the following code > > > throws > > > > > and > > > > > > NPE in exec(), when executed in -x mapred mode: > > > > > > > > > > > > Configuration jobConf = UDFContext.getUDFContext().getJobConf(); > > > > > > System.err.println(jobConf.toString()); > > > > > > > > > > > > I did not find any useful information as why my JobConf is always > > > null. > > > > > All > > > > > > I find is that this is the right way to get the JobConf in a UDF > > and > > > > that > > > > > > the behavior of what is returned when running locally (jira > issue). > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? I am running it on a very old Hadoop version 0.20.2 > Are > > > > there > > > > > > some known issues? I use Pig 0.11.1 > > > > > > > > > > > > Many thanks in advanced > > > > > > > > > > > > PS: Just found someone with the same issue > > > > > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18795008/accessing-hdfs-from-pig-udf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >