[PIG-476] given a date that can match a SimpleDateFormat want to be able to extract arbitrary SimpleDateFormat data, like day or year

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Earl Cahill
• Reporter: Earl Cahill
• Created: 08/Oct/08 07:53
• Updated: 25/Mar/10 00:12
• Resolved: 14/Oct/08 17:30

Description

Want to be able to do something like

A = FOREACH raw GENERATE org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.util.apachelogparser.DateExtractor(dayTime, "yyyy", "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss");

to extract the year, or if your date is formatted as

dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z

you could do something like

A = FOREACH raw GENERATE org.apache.pig.piggybank.evaluation.util.apachelogparser.DateExtractor(dayTime, "MM-dd-yyyy");

to grab out the day