[jira] [Resolved] (MAPREDUCE-2520) InputSampler.RandomSampler only accepts Text keys

["Chris Douglas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chris Douglas resolved MAPREDUCE-2520.
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    Resolution: Invalid

I see. This doesn't appear to be a bug in Hadoop, so I'm going to close this. You should contact the vendor for a fix to that code or download the latest stable release from Apache: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/releases.html

> InputSampler.RandomSampler only accepts Text keys
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2520
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2520
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: William McNeill
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I want to do a total sort on some data whose key type is Writable but not Text.  I wrote an InputSampler.RandomSampler object following the example in the "Total Sort" section of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.  When I call InputSampler.writePartitionFile() I get a runtime class cast exception because my key type cannot be cast to Text.  Specifically the issue seems to be the following section of InputSampler.getSample():
>     K key = reader.getCurrentKey();
>     ....
>     Text keyCopy = WritableUtils.<Text>clone((Text)key, job.getConfiguration());
> You can only use a RandomSampler on data with Text keys despite the fact that InputSampler takes <Key, Value> generic parameters.
> InputSampler.getSample() should be changed to cast the key to type K instead of type Text.

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