Just put it in the classpath
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Natarajan, Senthil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> How to read configuration file in Hadoop.
> I tried by copying the file in HDFS and also placing within the jar file.
>
> I tried like this in Map constructor
> Configuration conf = new Configuration();
> FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
> Path inFile = new Path("/file/path/configfile.txt");
> FSDataInputStream in = fs.open(inFile);
> properties.load(in);
> in.close();
>
> And also like this
> //URL url = UserPattern2.class.getResource(commFile);
> URL url = new URL("/file/path/configfile.txt");
> if( url != null ) {
> InputStream in = url.openStream();
> properties.load(in);
> in.close();
> }
>
> Looks like it is not finding the file seems, I am getting
> NullPointerException.
> Here I am opening file and loading into Java Properties object.
>
> Please let me know what might be the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Senthil
>
