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package org.apache.pig.builtin;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.PigConstants;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigMapReduce;
import org.apache.pig.data.DataType;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.schema.Schema;

/**
 * UniqueID generates a unique id for each records in the job. This unique id is
 * stable in task retry. Any arguments to the function are ignored.
 * Example:
 *      A = load 'mydata' as (name);
 *      B = foreach A generate name, UniqueID();
 * UniqueID takes the form "index-sequence"
 */
public class UniqueID extends EvalFunc {
    long sequence = 0;
    @Override
    public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {
        String taskIndex = PigMapReduce.sJobConfInternal.get().get(PigConstants.TASK_INDEX);    
        String sequenceId = taskIndex + "-" + Long.toString(sequence);
        sequence++;
        return sequenceId;
    }

    @Override
    public Schema outputSchema(Schema input) {
        return new Schema(new Schema.FieldSchema("uniqueid", DataType.CHARARRAY));
    }
}