As I wanted to increment some counters in some UDFs I wrote, I came across
http://squarecog.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/incrementing-hadoop-counters-in-apache-pig/
 as
THE answer
which basically says I should use something like

PigStatusReporter reporter = PigStatusReporter.getInstance();
if (reporter != null) {
   reporter.getCounter(key).increment(incr);
}
My issue however lies in that reporter.getCounter(key) always returns null

Also, I'm not sure what to do for the case when the reporter itself is null

Any ideas?

--
Best Regards,
Ahmed Sobhi
http://about.me/humanzz/bio

Hi Ahmed,

What are you using as key?
The method should work with both Strings and Enums.
If you are using one, can you try with the other?

If it is only a temporary null, you can probably work around it by using
ElephantBird as suggested in the blog post you linked.

Cheers,
--
Gianmarco

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:59, Ahmed Sobhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As I wanted to increment some counters in some UDFs I wrote, I came across
>
> http://squarecog.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/incrementing-hadoop-counters-in-apache-pig/
>  as
> THE answer
> which basically says I should use something like
>
> PigStatusReporter reporter = PigStatusReporter.getInstance();
> if (reporter != null) {
>   reporter.getCounter(key).increment(incr);
> }
>
>
> My issue however lies in that reporter.getCounter(key) always returns null
>
> Also, I'm not sure what to do for the case when the reporter itself is null
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Ahmed Sobhi
> http://about.me/humanzz/bio
>

I was using Enums yeah.

With ElephantBird it does work as it caches the counts till the
report/counter become available

I just hope that once they become available, they're available, otherwise,
I might be losing many counts

Thanks

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Ahmed,
>
> What are you using as key?
> The method should work with both Strings and Enums.
> If you are using one, can you try with the other?
>
> If it is only a temporary null, you can probably work around it by using
> ElephantBird as suggested in the blog post you linked.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Gianmarco
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:59, Ahmed Sobhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > As I wanted to increment some counters in some UDFs I wrote, I came
> across
> >
> >
> http://squarecog.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/incrementing-hadoop-counters-in-apache-pig/
> >  as
> > THE answer
> > which basically says I should use something like
> >
> > PigStatusReporter reporter = PigStatusReporter.getInstance();
> > if (reporter != null) {
> >   reporter.getCounter(key).increment(incr);
> > }
> >
> >
> > My issue however lies in that reporter.getCounter(key) always returns
> null
> >
> > Also, I'm not sure what to do for the case when the reporter itself is
> null
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Ahmed Sobhi
> > http://about.me/humanzz/bio
> >
>

--
Best Regards,
Ahmed Sobhi
http://about.me/humanzz/bio

In the JRuby patch, the class ElephantBird uses to make using counters
easier will be added to Pig as well. Until then, I'd use the EB class if
possible.

2012/3/30 Ahmed Sobhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I was using Enums yeah.
>
> With ElephantBird it does work as it caches the counts till the
> report/counter become available
>
> I just hope that once they become available, they're available, otherwise,
> I might be losing many counts
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ahmed,
> >
> > What are you using as key?
> > The method should work with both Strings and Enums.
> > If you are using one, can you try with the other?
> >
> > If it is only a temporary null, you can probably work around it by using
> > ElephantBird as suggested in the blog post you linked.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Gianmarco
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:59, Ahmed Sobhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > As I wanted to increment some counters in some UDFs I wrote, I came
> > across
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://squarecog.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/incrementing-hadoop-counters-in-apache-pig/
> > >  as
> > > THE answer
> > > which basically says I should use something like
> > >
> > > PigStatusReporter reporter = PigStatusReporter.getInstance();
> > > if (reporter != null) {
> > >   reporter.getCounter(key).increment(incr);
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > My issue however lies in that reporter.getCounter(key) always returns
> > null
> > >
> > > Also, I'm not sure what to do for the case when the reporter itself is
> > null
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Ahmed Sobhi
> > > http://about.me/humanzz/bio
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Ahmed Sobhi
> http://about.me/humanzz/bio
>