The customary practice is to have your Reducer.reduce method handle the filtering if you are reducing your output. or the Mapper.map method if you are not.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Asim <linka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to output only selective records to the output files based on > keys. Is it possible to selectively write keys by setting > setOutputKeyClass. Kindly let me know. > > Regards, > Asim > -- Alpha Chapters of my book on Hadoop are available http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
