Yes U can use user defined counter as Jagat suggeted.
Counter can be enum as Jagat described or any string which are called dynamic
counters.
It is easier to use Enum counter than dynamic counters, finally it depends on
your use case :)
Amith
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From: Jagat [jagatsi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:25 AM
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: Accessing global Counters
Hi
You can create your own counters like
enum CountFruits {
Apple,
Mango,
Banana
}
And in your mapper class when you see condition to increment , you can use
Reporter incrCounter method to do the same.
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/Reporter.html#incrCounter(java.lang.Enum,%20long)
e.g
// I saw Apple increment it by one
reporter.incrCounter(CountFruits.Apple,1);
Now you can access them using job.getCounters
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.html#getCounters()
Hope this helps
Regards,
Jagat Singh
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Gayatri Rao <rgayat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there a way for me to set global counters in Mapper and access them from
> reducer?
> Could you suggest how I can acheve this?
>
> Thanks
> Gayatri
>
