[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.

["Teppo Kurki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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

Teppo Kurki updated HADOOP-115:
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    Attachment: hadoop-115_tk.patch

(1) adds JobConf.set/getMapKey/ValueClass
(2) changes in ReduceTask so that the Map phase classes are used in append & sort
(3) explicit key and value class specification in OutputFormat.getRecordWriter so that they are not automatically pulled out of JobConf

Tests run ok, but I haven't added tests for different Map/Reduce key/value classes.

Owen's suggestion on automatically typing the OutputFormat when the first record is written would cause changes in fewer classes, but I had this already working...



> 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.
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>
>          Key: HADOOP-115
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-115
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: mapred
>     Reporter: Runping Qi
>  Attachments: hadoop-115_tk.patch
>
> 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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