Thanks so much. I took car of it in the mapper. On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 05:47 PM, Mithila Nagendra wrote: > >> Thank you so much for a response. I had one last question. >> >> What if I don't want a particular<K, V> pair to be put into a partition? >> For example, if K=5, then I want the partitioner to skip this Key. How >> would >> I do this? I tried to return -1 when I don't want a key to go to any >> partition, but that causes an "illegal partition" error. How would I do >> this? >> >> Thanks! >> Mithila >> > > You wouldn't do that in the partitioner. Filtering out specific > records/keys should occur in the mapper or reducer. (And in general > conceptually, the mapper would probably be the more appropriate place, > though it depends on your specific application.) > > DR >
