In that case. I will try to put a patch for this if nobody else is working on it
Best Bhupesh On 10/31/08 4:06 PM, "Owen O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Bhupesh Bansal wrote: > >> Why do we need these setters in JobConf ?? >> >> jobConf.setMapOutputKeyClass(String.class); >> >> jobConf.setMapOutputValueClass(LongWritable.class); > > Just historical. The Mapper and Reducer interfaces didn't use to be > generic. (Hadoop used to run on Java 1.4 too...) > > It would be nice to remove the need to call them. There is an old bug > open to check for consistency HADOOP-1683. It would be even better to > make the setting of both the map and reduce output types optional if > they are specified by the template parameters. > > -- Owen
