Group key value of map in pig

Question

I am new to pigscript. Say, We have a file

[a#1,b#2,c#3]
[a#4,b#5,c#6]
[a#7,b#8,c#9]

pig script

A = LOAD 'txt' AS (in: map[]);
B = FOREACH A GENERATE in#'a';
DUMP B;

We know that we can take the values feeding in the key. In the above example I took the map that contains the values with respect to the key "a". Assuming that I dont know the key, I want to group the values with respect to keys in a relation and dump it.

(a,{1,4,7})
(b,{2,5,8})
(c,{3,6,9})    

Does pig allows such operations or need to go with UDF? Please help me through this. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create a custom UDF which converts the map to a bag (using Pig v0.10.0):

package com.example;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.data.BagFactory;
import org.apache.pig.data.DataBag;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;

public class MapToBag extends EvalFunc<DataBag> {

    private static final BagFactory bagFactory = BagFactory.getInstance();
    private static final TupleFactory tupleFactory = TupleFactory.getInstance();

    @Override
    public DataBag exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {
        try {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            Map<String, Object> map = (Map<String, Object>) input.get(0);
            DataBag result = null;
            if (map != null) {
                result = bagFactory.newDefaultBag();
                for (Entry<String, Object> entry : map.entrySet()) {
                    Tuple tuple = tupleFactory.newTuple(2);
                    tuple.set(0, entry.getKey());
                    tuple.set(1, entry.getValue());
                    result.add(tuple);
                }
            }
            return result;

        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("MapToBag error", e);
        }
    }
}

Then:

B = foreach A generate 
      flatten(com.example.MapToBag(in)) as (k:chararray, v:chararray);
describe B;
B: {k: chararray,v: chararray}

Now group by key and use a nested foreach:

C = foreach (group B by k) {
    value = foreach B generate v;
    generate group as key, value;
};
dump C;
(a,{(1),(4),(7)})
(b,{(2),(5),(8)})
(c,{(3),(6),(9)})