Inserting tuples inside an inner bag using Pig Latin - Hadoop - hadoop

Question

I am trying to create the following format of relation using Pig Latin:
userid, day, {(pid,fulldate, x,y),(pid,fulldate, x,y), ...}
Relation description: Each user (userid) in each day (day) has purchased multiple products (pid)
I am Loading the data into:
A= LOAD '**from a HDFS URL**' AS (pid: chararray,userid:
chararray,day:int,fulldate: chararray,x: chararray,y:chararray);
B= GROUP A BY (userid, day);
Describe B;
B: {group: (userid: chararray,day: int),A: {(pid: chararray,day: int,fulldate: chararray,x: chararray,userid: chararray,y: chararray)}}
C= FOREACH B FLATTEN(B) AS (userid,day), $1.pid, $1.fulldate,$1.x,$1.y;
Describe C;
C: {userid: chararray,day: int,{(pid: chararray)}},{(fulldate: chararray)},{(x: chararray)},{(y: chararray)}}
The result of Describe C does not give the format I want ! What I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are correct till the GROUP BY part. After that however you are trying to do something messy. I'm actually not sure what is happening for your alias C. To arrive at the format you are looking for, you will need a nested foreach.
C = FOREACH B {
data = A.pid, A.fulldate, A.x, A.y;
GENERATE FLATTEN(group), data;
}
This allows C to have one record for each (userid, day) and all the corresponding (pid,fulldate, x, y) tuples in a bag.
You can read more about nested foreach here: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/programming-pig/9781449317881/ch06.html (Search for nested foreach in that link).

Answer 2

My understanding is that B is almost what you're looking for, except you would like the tuple containing userid and day to be flattened, and you would like only pid, fulldate, x, and y to appear in the bag.
First, you want to flatten the tuple group which has fields userid and day, not the bag A which contains multiple tuples. Flattening group unnests the tuple, which only has 1 set of unique values for each row, whereas flattening the bag A would effectively ungroup your previous GROUP BY statement since the values in the bag A are not unique. So the first part should read C = FOREACH B GENERATE FLATTEN(group) AS (userid, day);
Next, you want to keep pid, fulldate, x, and y in separate tuples for each record, but the way you've selected them essentially makes a bag of all the pid values, a bag of all the fulldate values, etc. Instead, try selecting these fields in a way that keeps the tuples nested in the bag:
C = FOREACH B GENERATE
FLATTEN(group) AS (userid, day),
A.(pid, fulldate, x, y) AS A;