Apache Pig - GetYear()

This function accepts a date-time object as parameter and returns the current year from the given date-time object.

Syntax

Here is the syntax of the GetYear() function.

grunt> GetYear(datetime)

Example

Assume that there is a file named date.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/ as shown below. This file contains the date-of-birth details of a particular person, it has person id, date and time.

date.txt

001,1989/09/26 09:00:00
002,1980/06/20 10:22:00
003,1990/12/19 03:11:44

And, we have loaded this file into Pig with a relation named date_data as shown below.

grunt> date_data = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/date.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int,date:chararray);

Following is an example of the GetYear() function. It will retrive the current year from the given date-time object. Therefore, First of all let’s generate the date-time objects of all employees using todate() function as shown below.

grunt> todate_data = foreach date_data generate ToDate(date,'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss')
   as (date_time:DateTime );
  
grunt> Dump todate_data;
(1989-09-26T09:00:00.000+05:30) 
(1980-06-20T10:22:00.000+05:30) 
(1990-12-19T03:11:44.000+05:30) 

Let us now get the year from the date-of-birth of each employee using the GetYear() function and store it in the relation named getyear_data.

grunt> getyear_data = foreach todate_data generate (date_time), GetYear(date_time);

Now verify the contents of the getyear_data relation using Dump operator as shown below.

grunt> Dump getyear_data;
  
(1989-09-26T09:00:00.000+05:30,1989) 
(1980-06-20T10:22:00.000+05:30,1980) 
(1990-12-19T03:11:44.000+05:30,1990)