Are you saying that I can pass, say, a single integer constant with either of these three: JobConf? A HDFS file? DistributedCache? Or are you asking if I can pass given the context of: JobConf? A HDFS file? DistributedCache? I'm thinking of how to pass a single int so from one Jobconf to the next
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Arun C Murthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Yih Sun Khoo wrote: > > I like to hear some good ways of passing constants from one job to the >> next. >> > > Unless I'm missing something: JobConf? A HDFS file? DistributedCache? > > Arun > > > >> These are some ways that I can think of: >> 1) The obvious solution is to carry the constant as part of your value >> from >> one job to the next, but that would mean every value would hold that >> constant >> 2) Use the reporter as a hack so that you can set the status message and >> then get the status message back when u need the constant >> >> Any other ideas? (Also please do not include code) >> > >
