Pig Latin: Load multiple files from a date range (part of the directory structure)

I have the following scenario-

Pig version used 0.70

Sample HDFS directory structure:

/user/training/test/20100810/<data files>
/user/training/test/20100811/<data files>
/user/training/test/20100812/<data files>
/user/training/test/20100813/<data files>
/user/training/test/20100814/<data files>

As you can see in the paths listed above, one of the directory names is a date stamp.

Problem: I want to load files from a date range say from 20100810 to 20100813.

I can pass the 'from' and 'to' of the date range as parameters to the Pig script but how do I make use of these parameters in the LOAD statement. I am able to do the following

temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/{20100810,20100811,20100812}' USING SomeLoader() AS (...);

The following works with hadoop:

hadoop fs -ls /user/training/test/{20100810..20100813}

But it fails when I try the same with LOAD inside the pig script. How do I make use of the parameters passed to the Pig script to load data from a date range?

Error log follows:

Backend error message during job submission
-------------------------------------------
org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2118: Unable to create input splits for: hdfs://<ServerName>.com/user/training/test/{20100810..20100813}
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigInputFormat.getSplits(PigInputFormat.java:269)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.writeNewSplits(JobClient.java:858)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.writeSplits(JobClient.java:875)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.access$500(JobClient.java:170)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:793)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:752)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1062)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:752)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:726)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol.Job.submit(Job.java:378)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol.JobControl.startReadyJobs(JobControl.java:247)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol.JobControl.run(JobControl.java:279)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.InvalidInputException: Input Pattern hdfs://<ServerName>.com/user/training/test/{20100810..20100813} matches 0 files
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat.listStatus(FileInputFormat.java:231)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigTextInputFormat.listStatus(PigTextInputFormat.java:36)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat.getSplits(FileInputFormat.java:248)
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigInputFormat.getSplits(PigInputFormat.java:258)
        ... 14 more



Pig Stack Trace
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ERROR 2997: Unable to recreate exception from backend error: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2118: Unable to create input splits for: hdfs://<ServerName>.com/user/training/test/{20100810..20100813}

org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.FrontendException: ERROR 1066: Unable to open iterator for alias test
        at org.apache.pig.PigServer.openIterator(PigServer.java:521)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.processDump(GruntParser.java:544)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.pigscript.parser.PigScriptParser.parse(PigScriptParser.java:241)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:162)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.GruntParser.parseStopOnError(GruntParser.java:138)
        at org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt.run(Grunt.java:75)
        at org.apache.pig.Main.main(Main.java:357)
Caused by: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2997: Unable to recreate exception from backend error: org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException: ERROR 2118: Unable to create input splits for: hdfs://<ServerName>.com/user/training/test/{20100810..20100813}
        at org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.Launcher.getStats(Launcher.java:169)

Do I need to make use of a higher language like Python to capture all date stamps in the range and pass them to LOAD as a comma separated list?

cheers

Solution 1:

As zjffdu said, the path expansion is done by the shell. One common way to solve your problem is to simply use Pig parameters (which is a good way to make your script more resuable anyway):

shell:

pig -f script.pig -param input=/user/training/test/{20100810..20100812}

script.pig:

temp = LOAD '$input' USING SomeLoader() AS (...);

Solution 2:

Pig is processing your file name pattern using the hadoop file glob utilities, not the shell's glob utilities. Hadoop's are documented here. As you can see, hadoop does not support the '..' operator for a range. It seems to me you have two options - either write out the {date1,date2,date2,...,dateN} list by hand, which if this is a rare use case is probably the way to go, or write a wrapper script which generates that list for you. Building such a list from a date range should be a trivial task for the scripting language of your choice. For my application, I've gone with the generated list route, and it's working fine (CHD3 distribution).

Solution 3:

i ran across this answer when i was having trouble trying to create a file glob in a script and then pass it as a parameter into a pig script.

none of the current answers applied to my situation, but i did find a general answer that might be helpful here.

in my case, the shell expansion was happening and then passing that into the script - causing complete problems with the pig parser, understandably.

so by simply surrounding the glob in double-quotes protects it from being expanded by the shell, and passes it as is into the command.

WON'T WORK:

$ pig -f my-pig-file.pig -p INPUTFILEMASK='/logs/file{01,02,06}.log' -p OTHERPARAM=6

WILL WORK

$ pig -f my-pig-file.pig -p INPUTFILEMASK="/logs/file{01,02,06}.log" -p OTHERPARAM=6

i hope this saves someone some pain and agony.

Solution 4:

So since this works:

temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/{20100810,20100811,20100812}' USING SomeLoader()

but this does not work:

temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/{20100810..20100812}' USING SomeLoader()

but if you want a date range that spans say 300 days and passing a full list to LOAD is not elegant to say the least. I came up with this and it works.

Say you want to load data from 2012-10-08 to today 2013-02-14, what you can do is

temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/{201210*,201211*,201212,2013*}' USING SomeLoader()

then do a filter after that

filtered = FILTER temp BY (the_date>='2012-10-08')

Solution 5:

temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/2010081*/*' USING SomeLoader() AS (...);
load 20100810~20100819 data
temp = LOAD '/user/training/test/2010081{0,1,2}/*' USING SomeLoader() AS (...);
load 20100810~2010812 data

if the variable is in the middle of file path, concate subfolder name or use '*' for all files.