[jira] Updated: (PIG-999) sorting on map-value fails if map-value is not of bytearray type

["Thejas M Nair (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Thejas M Nair updated PIG-999:
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    Fix Version/s: 0.7.0

> sorting on map-value fails if map-value is not of bytearray type
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>                 Key: PIG-999
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-999
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Thejas M Nair
>             Fix For: 0.7.0
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> When query execution plan is created by pig, it assumes the type to be bytearray because there is no schema information associated with map fields.
> But at run time, the loader might return the actual type. This results in a ClassCastException.
> This issue points to the larger issue of the way pig is handling types for map-value. 
> This issue should be fixed in the context of revisiting the frontend logic and pig-latin semantics.
> This is related to PIG-880 . The patch in PIG-880 changed PigStorage to always return bytearray for map values to work around this, but other loaders like BinStorage can return the actual type causing this issue.

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