[PIG-1213] Schema serialization is broken

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Pradeep Kamath
• Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
• Created: 29/Jan/10 20:32
• Updated: 24/Mar/10 22:16
• Resolved: 16/Feb/10 18:56

Description

Consider a udf which needs to know the schema of its input in the backend while executing. To achieve this, the udf needs to store the schema into the UDFContext. Internally the UDFContext will serialize the schema into the jobconf. However this currently is broken and gives a Serialization exception