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Jitendra Nath Pandey commented on HADOOP-6711:
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Configuration has a getStringCollection API : public Collection<String> 
getStringCollection(String name)

There is no such set method though.

> Configuration should support list of values
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6711
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6711
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: conf
>            Reporter: Amar Kamat
>
> Configuration supports 2 operations namely _set()_ and _get()_. It would be 
> nice to have an inbuild support for lists where there can be multiple values 
> (i.e list of values) assigned to one key. A workaround could be
> {code}
> // Assume Key be the parameter key and newValue be the value to be 
> added/appended
> Configuration c = new Configuration();
> String value = c.get(Key);
> value = value + " " + newValue
> c.set(Key, value);
> {code}
> One common usecase is that in a production enviroment, some user facing 
> params (e.g mapred.child.java.opts) are set to default values (say for 
> performance reasons). Users themselves might want to *add* to this list. 
> Doing a set would overwrite the previous values. The above mentioned hack is 
> doable via code but not via command line. Hence we need the framework to 
> support lists.

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