[PIG-893] support cast of chararray to other simple types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Release Note: PIG-893: Added casts from chararray to int, long, float, and double.
• Assignee: Jeff Zhang
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 21/Jul/09 17:27
• Updated: 24/Mar/10 22:13
• Resolved: 12/Aug/09 06:31

Description

Pig should support casting of chararray to integer,long,float,double,bytearray. If the conversion fails for reasons such as overflow, cast should return null and log a warning.