[PIG-2716] Misleading error message

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.2, 0.10.0
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vivek Padmanabhan
• Created: 22/May/12 08:21
• Updated: 06/Jun/12 00:38

Description

a = load myinput/1111/*.bz2 as (f:chararray);
b = foreach a generate INDEXOF(f,'#',0);
c = limit b 100;
dump c ;

The above script fails with the error message ;
2012-04-25 09:20:39,377 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR
1000: Error during parsing. Lexical error at line 5, column 0. Encountered:
<EOF> after : ""

But the actual problem is in the first line. This becomes tricky to find when
my script is large and there are multiple load statements.