Try throwing RuntimeException, or any other unchecked exception (e.g., any descendant classes of RuntimeException) - Aaron
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.g...@gmail.com>wrote: > hello, > I'm not that comfortable with java, so here is my question. In the > MapReduceBase class, i have implemented the configure method, which > does not throw an exception. Suppose I detect an error in some > options, i wish to raise an exception(in the configure method) - is > there a way to do that? Is there a way to stop the job in case the > configure method fails?, > Saptarshi Guha > > [1] My map extends MapReduceBase and my reduce extends MapReduceBase - > two separate classes. > > Thank you >
