[jira] [Work started] (PIG-2937) generated field in nested foreach does not inherit the variable name as the field name

["Jonathan Coveney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2937?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Work on PIG-2937 started by Jonathan Coveney.

> generated field in nested foreach does not inherit the variable name as the field name
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2937
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2937
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Feng Peng
>            Assignee: Jonathan Coveney
>             Fix For: 0.11, 0.12
>
>         Attachments: PIG-2937-0.patch
>
>
> {code}
> raw_data = load 'xyz' using Loader() as (field_a, field_b, field_c);
> records = foreach raw_data {
>   generated_field = (field_a is null ? '-' : someUDF(field_b)); 
>   GENERATE
>     field_c,
>     generated_field
>   ;
> }
> describe records;
> {code}
> One would expect the generated_field to have a field name, similar to the field_c that is from the original relation. However, Pig currently doesn't assign the field name by default. It'd be nice if we can assign the variable name as the default field name. 

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