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BitsOfInfo commented on MAPREDUCE-1176:
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Thanks, anyways, the implementation I originally threw together worked great 
for our needs. If this is an optimization for it in just computing the split 
size, then go ahead.
                
> Contribution: FixedLengthInputFormat and FixedLengthRecordReader
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1176
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1176
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.1, 0.20.2
>         Environment: Any
>            Reporter: BitsOfInfo
>            Assignee: Mariappan Asokan
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1176-v1.patch, MAPREDUCE-1176-v2.patch, 
> MAPREDUCE-1176-v3.patch, MAPREDUCE-1176-v4.patch
>
>
> Hello,
> I would like to contribute the following two classes for incorporation into 
> the mapreduce.lib.input package. These two classes can be used when you need 
> to read data from files containing fixed length (fixed width) records. Such 
> files have no CR/LF (or any combination thereof), no delimiters etc, but each 
> record is a fixed length, and extra data is padded with spaces. The data is 
> one gigantic line within a file.
> Provided are two classes first is the FixedLengthInputFormat and its 
> corresponding FixedLengthRecordReader. When creating a job that specifies 
> this input format, the job must have the 
> "mapreduce.input.fixedlengthinputformat.record.length" property set as follows
> myJobConf.setInt("mapreduce.input.fixedlengthinputformat.record.length",[myFixedRecordLength]);
> OR
> myJobConf.setInt(FixedLengthInputFormat.FIXED_RECORD_LENGTH, 
> [myFixedRecordLength]);
> This input format overrides computeSplitSize() in order to ensure that 
> InputSplits do not contain any partial records since with fixed records there 
> is no way to determine where a record begins if that were to occur. Each 
> InputSplit passed to the FixedLengthRecordReader will start at the beginning 
> of a record, and the last byte in the InputSplit will be the last byte of a 
> record. The override of computeSplitSize() delegates to FileInputFormat's 
> compute method, and then adjusts the returned split size by doing the 
> following: (Math.floor(fileInputFormatsComputedSplitSize / fixedRecordLength) 
> * fixedRecordLength)
> This suite of fixed length input format classes, does not support compressed 
> files. 

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