[PARQUET-266] Add support for lists of primitives to Pig schema converter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0, 1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Christian Rolf
• Created: 29/Apr/15 08:45
• Updated: 05/Jun/15 17:35
• Resolved: 05/Jun/15 17:33

Description

Right now lists of primitives are not supported in Pig (exception thrown from the PigSchemaConverter.java, line 292 in Parquet 1.6).

Patch converts Parquet-arrays of primitives into Pig-bags, the closest representation of an array in Pig.