Apache Pig - TOTUPLE()

The TOTUPLE() function is used convert one or more expressions to the data type tuple.

Syntax

Given below is the syntax of the TOTUPLE() function.

grunt> TOTUPLE(expression [, expression ...])

Example

Assume we have a file named employee_details.txt in the HDFS directory /pig_data/, with the following content.

employee_details.txt

001,Robin,22,newyork
002,BOB,23,Kolkata
003,Maya,23,Tokyo 
004,Sara,25,London 
005,David,23,Bhuwaneshwar 
006,Maggy,22,Chennai

We have loaded this file into Pig with the relation name emp_data as shown below.

grunt> emp_data = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/employee_details.txt' USING PigStorage(',')
   as (id:int, name:chararray, age:int, city:chararray);

Let us now convert the id, name and age of each student (record) into a tuple.

grunt> totuple = FOREACH emp_data GENERATE TOTUPLE (id,name,age);

Verification

You can verify the contents of the totuple schema using the Dump operator as shown below.

grunt> DUMP totuple;
  
((1,Robin,22)) 
((2,BOB,23)) 
((3,Maya,23)) 
((4,Sara,25)) 
((5,David,23)) 
((6,Maggy,22))