Agree with Harsh, I think you need to write your own RecordRead.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Harsh Chouraria <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:52 AM, <kevin.le...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > > -Dstream.map.output.field.separator= \ > > -Dstream.num.map.output.key.fields=13 \ > > > > I have searched the forum for discussions on fixed length or splitting > > keys but have not found my answer. Perhaps this is not possible, at > > least on the command line? > > I'm not aware of any streaming provided functionality that gives you > this support. Your mapper code will have to achieve this on its own > before emitting, I think (Or your InputFormat can do it at read time, > perhaps). > > -- > Harsh J > Support Engineer, Cloudera >