Hi, You could send the file meta info to the map function as key/value through the split, and then you can read the entire file in your map function.
Thanks Devaraj k -----Original Message----- From: Kasi Subrahmanyam [mailto:kasisubbu...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 July 2013 13:38 To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Sending the entire file content as value to the mapper Hi Team, I have a file which has semi structured text data with no definite start and end points. How can i send the entire content of the file at once as key or value to the mapper instead of line by line. Thanks, Subbu
