What does your file name extension look like?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kylie McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:18 AM
> To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Codec Returning null
>
> Hello Again!
>
> I'm running into a NullPointerException from the following
> code (taken from a recordreader). None of the other variables
> are returning null, I've check them all. I've checked the
> documentation, and I still don't know why the
> compressionCodecFactory would return a null result. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you!
> Kylie
>
> public ServiceRecordReader(Configuration job, FileSplit split)
> throws java.io.IOException {
>
> final Path file = split.getPath();
> compressionCodecs = new CompressionCodecFactory(job);
> final CompressionCodec codec =
> compressionCodecs.getCodec(file);
>
> //since we're not concerned with splits, we'll
> just open the objects
> FileSystem fs = file.getFileSystem(job);
> FSDataInputStream fileIn = fs.open(split.getPath());
>
>
> if(codec != null) {
>
> in = new
> ServiceReader(codec.createInputStream(fileIn));
>
> } else {
>
> throw new java.io.IOException("codec is null,
> curses... ");
>
> }
>
