passing job arguments as an xml file

[ishwar ramani <rv...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am looking at an easy way to passing the job arguments trough a config file.
The genericoptionsparser seems to parse only the hadoop options.

Normally i use jsap but that would not co-exist with  genericoptionsparser ....

thanks
ishwar

RE: passing job arguments as an xml file

[Amogh Vasekar <am...@yahoo-inc.com>]

Hi,
GenericOptionsParser is customized only for Hadoop specific params : 

* <code>GenericOptionsParser</code> recognizes several standarad command 
 * line arguments, enabling applications to easily specify a namenode, a 
 * jobtracker, additional configuration resources etc.

Ideally, all params must be passed via Tool interface. In my application, I have a custom serialiizer/deseralizer classes to parse any xml file I might be supplying, which I use to generate some metadata. This can be a part of the above interface as well. Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Amogh
-----Original Message-----
From: ishwar ramani [mailto:rvmishwar@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:38 AM
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Subject: passing job arguments as an xml file

Hi,

I am looking at an easy way to passing the job arguments trough a config file.
The genericoptionsparser seems to parse only the hadoop options.

Normally i use jsap but that would not co-exist with  genericoptionsparser ....

thanks
ishwar