[PIG-2515] Make CustomFormatToISO return null on Exception in parsing dates

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.10.0, 0.11
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0, 0.11
• Component/s: piggybank
• Labels: date datetime datetimes fun happy pants pig piggybank
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Russell Jurney
• Reporter: Russell Jurney
• Created: 07/Feb/12 03:00
• Updated: 22/Jun/12 03:36
• Resolved: 17/Mar/12 00:09

Description

Dates are often ugly and malformed, and it is highly inconvenient for CustomFormatToISO to kill an entire run because a single date does not format. As other string utilities in piggybank return null on error, so should CustomFormatToISO.