Stringize.java

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 * Copyright 2011 Internet Archive
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package org.archive.bacon;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.util.WrappedIOException;

/**
 * Hack UDF to force a kinda-uknown tuple into a String.
 */ 
public class Stringize extends EvalFunc<String>
{

  public Stringize( )
    throws IOException
  {
    
  }

  public String exec( Tuple input )
    throws IOException 
  {
    if ( input == null || input.size() == 0 ) return null;

    try
      {
        String s = (String) input.get(0);
        
        return s;
      }
    catch ( Exception e )
      {
        throw WrappedIOException.wrap("Caught exception processing input row ", e);
      }
  }

}