[PIG-2786] enhance Pig launcher script wrt. HBase/HCat integration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: grunt
• Labels: hbase
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Nick Dimiduk
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 03/Jul/12 18:33
• Updated: 14/Oct/13 16:46
• Resolved: 20/Apr/13 17:59

Description

The current bin/pig script suffers from a couple of issues as far as integration with HBase is concerned:

1. it only detects ZK/HBase jars under a PIG_HOME/share/.. layout
2. it doesn't detect HBase dependencies

The proposal here would be to ask HBase itself for its classpath

Issue Links

• relates to: PIG-3285 Jobs using HBaseStorage fail to ship dependency jars