[PIG-4160] Provide a way to pass local jars in pig.additional.jars when using a remote url for a script

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: impl
• Labels: patch
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Andrew C. Oliver
• Reporter: Andrew C. Oliver
• Created: 08/Sep/14 23:00
• Updated: 21/Nov/14 05:59
• Resolved: 30/Oct/14 21:16

Description

patch adds a -j/forcelocaljars flag which if enabled allows you to do
pig -j -useHCatalog hdfs://myserver:8020/load/scripts/mydir/myscript.pig

thus loading the pig script REMOTELY
while loading the jar files LOCALLY

One does this to avoid a single point of failure but avoid one central interversion dependent repository for all the jars across all teams/projects.