Jim, This is fixed in 2.x releases already via https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1905 (incompat change). In 1.x this is a known limitation. Perhaps we can come up with a different non-breaking fix for 1.x?
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Jim Donofrio <donofrio...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the mapred api getRecordReader was passed a Reporter which could then get > passed to the RecordReader to allow a RecordReader to increment counters for > different types of records, bad records, etc. In the new mapreduce api > createRecordReader only gets the InputSplit and TaskAttemptContext, both > have no access to counters. > > Is there really no way to increment counters inside of a RecordReader or > InputFormat in the mapreduce api? -- Harsh J
