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Pig Job — POST pig

Description

Create and queue a Pig job.

URL

http://www.myserver.com/templeton/v1/pig

Parameters

Name

Description

Required?

Default

execute

String containing an entire, short Pig program to run.

One of either "execute" or "file" is required.

None

file

HDFS file name of a Pig program to run.

One of either "execute" or "file" is required.

None

arg

Set a program argument.

Optional

None

files

Comma separated files to be copied to the map reduce cluster.

Optional

None

statusdir

A directory where WebHCat will write the status of the Pig job. If provided, it is the caller's responsibility to remove this directory when done.

Optional

None

callback

Define a URL to be called upon job completion. You may embed a specific job ID into this URL using $jobId. This tag will be replaced in the callback URL with this job's job ID.

Optional

None

The standard parameters are also supported.

Results

Name

Description

id

A string containing the job ID similar to "job_201110132141_0001".

info

A JSON object containing the information returned when the job was queued. See the Hadoop documentation (Class TaskController) for more information.

Example

Code and Data Setup

% cat id.pig
A = load 'passwd' using PigStorage(':');
B = foreach A generate $0 as id;
dump B;

% cat fake-passwd
ctdean:Chris Dean:secret
pauls:Paul Stolorz:good
carmas:Carlos Armas:evil
dra:Deirdre McClure:marvelous

% hadoop fs -put id.pig .
% hadoop fs -put fake-passwd passwd

Curl Command

% curl -s -d user.name=ctdean \
       -d file=id.pig \
       -d arg=-v \
       'http://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/pig'

JSON Output

{
 "id": "job_201111101627_0018",
 "info": {
          "stdout": "templeton-job-id:job_201111101627_0018
                    ",
          "stderr": "",
          "exitcode": 0
         }
}


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