Throw an exception if the configure method fails

[Saptarshi Guha <sa...@gmail.com>]

hello,
I'm not that comfortable with java, so here is my question. In the
MapReduceBase class, i have implemented the configure method, which
does not throw an exception. Suppose I detect an error in some
options, i wish to raise an exception(in the configure method) - is
there a way to do that? Is there a way to stop the job in case the
configure method fails?,
Saptarshi Guha

[1] My map extends MapReduceBase and my reduce extends MapReduceBase -
two separate classes.

Thank you

Re: Throw an exception if the configure method fails

[Aaron Kimball <aa...@cloudera.com>]

Try throwing RuntimeException, or any other unchecked exception (e.g., any
descendant classes of RuntimeException)
- Aaron

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Saptarshi Guha <sa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> hello,
> I'm not that comfortable with java, so here is my question. In the
> MapReduceBase class, i have implemented the configure method, which
> does not throw an exception. Suppose I detect an error in some
> options, i wish to raise an exception(in the configure method) - is
> there a way to do that? Is there a way to stop the job in case the
> configure method fails?,
> Saptarshi Guha
>
> [1] My map extends MapReduceBase and my reduce extends MapReduceBase -
> two separate classes.
>
> Thank you
>