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[jira] Updated: (PIG-1773) Casting docs do not cover casting
chararrays
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1773?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Olga Natkovich updated PIG-1773:
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Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
Assignee: Corinne Chandel
> Casting docs do not cover casting chararrays
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PIG-1773
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1773
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Dmitriy V. Ryaboy
> Assignee: Corinne Chandel
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>
> The documentation appears to be out of date in regards to casting chararrays.
> http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.7.0/piglatin_ref2.html#Cast+Operators lists chararray as being uncastable to anything else.
> This isn't the case since PIG-893
> grunt> x = load 'tmp/numbers' as (a:chararray, b:chararray);
> grunt> y = foreach x generate ((long) b) + 1;
> grunt> z = foreach y generate (chararray) $0;
> grunt> dump y
> (2L)
> (4L)
> (6L)
> (3L)
> (8L)
> grunt> dump z
> (2)
> (4)
> (6)
> (3)
> (8)
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