The other thing you want to document is that the setConf() function is called by the Hadoop reflection utilities whenever it creates a Configurable object. I guess that's the only way it could happen, but I still wasn't sure how this worked until I stepped through it in the debugger.
You also should document under what circumstances getConf() would be called. I'm still not clear what the scenario would be. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:25 PM, W.P. McNeill <bill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I only wanted the context as a way of getting at the configuration, so > > making the class implement Configurable will solve my problem. > > Good to know. I believe this ought to be documented. I've opened > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2474 for the same. > > -- > Harsh J >
