[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-115) Hadoop should allow the user to use SequentialFileOutputformat as the output format and to choose key/value classes that are different from those for map output.

["Runping Qi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-115?page=all ]

Runping Qi updated HADOOP-115:
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    Attachment: patch_115.txt.2006_05_16

My patch is attached.

 

Change highlights:

JobConf.java:
    Added set/getMapOutputKey/ValueClass methods
    Modified getOutputKeyComparatorClass 

MapTask.java:
    call getMapOutputKey/ValueClass instead of getOutputKey/ValueClass

MapReduce.java:
    call getMapOutputKey/ValueClass instead of getOutputKey/ValueClass

MapOutputFile.java:
    call getMapOutputKey/ValueClass instead of getOutputKey/ValueClass

 

I've run a job with a combiner, with UTF8 as the  map output value class, and  CrawledDoc as the output value class.

The job completed successfully.



> Hadoop should allow the user to use SequentialFileOutputformat as the output format and to choose  key/value classes that are different from those for map output.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HADOOP-115
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-115
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: mapred
>     Reporter: Runping Qi
>     Assignee: Runping Qi
>  Attachments: hadoop-115_ReduceTask.patch, hadoop-115_tk.patch, patch_115.txt.2006_05_16
>
> When map tasks write intermediate data out, they always use SequencialFile RecordWriter with key/value classes from the job object.
> When the reducers write the final results out, its output format is obtained from the job object. By default, it is TextOutputFormat, and no conflicts.
> However, if one wants to use SequencialFileFormat for the final results, then the key/value classes are also obtained from the job object, the same as the map tasks' output. Now we have a problem. It is impossible for the map outputs and reducer outputs use different key/value classes, if one wants the reducers generate outputs in SequentialFileFormat.
> A simple fix would be to add another two attributes to JobConf class: mapOutputLeyClass and mapOutputValueClass. That allows the user to have different key/value classes for the intermediate and final outputs.

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