[PIG-889] Pig can not access reporter of PigHadoopLog in Load Func

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: impl
• Release Note: As per the discussion with Jeff, closing the bug as won't fix
• Tags: Counter LoadFunc Pig
• Assignee: Jeff Zhang
• Reporter: Jeff Zhang
• Created: 16/Jul/09 14:53
• Updated: 30/Jul/09 04:57
• Resolved: 30/Jul/09 04:57

Description

I'd like to increment Counter in my own LoadFunc, but it will throw NullPointerException. It seems that the reporter is not initialized.
I looked into this problem and find that it need to call PigHadoopLogger.getInstance().setReporter(reporter) in PigInputFormat.