[PIG-1323] Communicate whether the call to LoadFunc.setLocation is being made in hadoop's front end or backend

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Assignee: Pradeep Kamath
• Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
• Created: 22/Mar/10 22:51
• Updated: 14/May/10 06:55
• Resolved: 12/Apr/10 22:23

Description

Loaders which interact with external systems like a metadata server may need to know if the LoadFunc.setLocation call happens from the frontend (on the client machine) or in the backend (on each map task). The Configuration in the Job argument to setLocation() can contain this information.