Hello everyone,

Is it possible to update a counter from within an UDF? I know there is some information on updating counters using log messages, but I have never done that before and have no idea if it is working with pig.

Thanks,

Daan.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daan Gerits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Is it possible to update a counter from within an UDF? I know there is some information on updating counters using log messages, but I have never done that before and have no idea if it is working with pig.
>

This seems to work for me:

                       PigStatusReporter reporter PigStatusReporter.getInstance();
if (reporter != null) {
  reporter.getCounter("name", "group").increment(1);
}

Also see http://squarecog.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/incrementing-hadoop-counters-in-apache-pig/