Yes. Just add the property to the core-site.xml file and you should see it in the Configuration object passed to your FileInputFormat.
-Joey On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Marcel Holle <marcel.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I want to add a custom parameter to core-site.xlm, which I would like to > access from the FileInputFormat.getSplits() method. Is this possible? > > 2012/1/12 Joey Echeverria <j...@cloudera.com> > >> It doesn't matter if the original comes from mapred-site.xml, >> core-site.xml, or hdfs-site.xml. All that really matters is if it's a >> client/job tunable or if it configures one of the daemons. >> >> Which parameter did you want to change? >> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Marcel Holle >> <marcel.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > I need a value of the core-site.xml property file within FileInputFormat. >> > I'm overriding the getSplits method: public List<InputSplit> >> > getSplits(JobContext job); >> > >> > Using the job I can access the job configuration which gives me access to >> > mapres-site.xml, but does it also let me access core-site.xml? >> >> >> >> -- >> Joseph Echeverria >> Cloudera, Inc. >> 443.305.9434 >> -- Joseph Echeverria Cloudera, Inc. 443.305.9434
