[jira] [Created] (CRUNCH-176) CrunchTool limits access to some pipeline functionality

["Dave Beech (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Dave Beech created CRUNCH-176:
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             Summary: CrunchTool limits access to some pipeline functionality
                 Key: CRUNCH-176
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-176
             Project: Crunch
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Core
            Reporter: Dave Beech
            Assignee: Josh Wills
            Priority: Minor


CrunchTool is a really handy way to start a Crunch job, but it unnecessarily limits some of the features of Pipeline. 

Some suggested improvements:

- run() and done() methods could return the PipelineResult returned by the pipeline
- CrunchTool could be Serializable so you don't have to remember to add this to yourself after writing anonymous DoFns
- add materialize method?
- could even provide access to the underlying pipeline object via a protected getter? 



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