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package org.apache.pig.impl.builtin;

import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
import org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.schema.Schema;


/**
 * Returns the input, used by DuplicateForEachColumnRewrite
 * to rewrite duplicate columns in ForEach. Not intended for 
 * external use
 */
public class IdentityColumn extends EvalFunc<Object> {

    @Override
    public Object exec(Tuple input) throws ExecException {
        return input.get(0);
    }

    @Override
    public Schema outputSchema(Schema input) {
        return input; 
    }

}