Btw, also checkout Avro's MapReduce components. Its a much better
serialization framework, and you'll have lesser issues figuring out
datatypes to use + more performance from good use of codecs.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> If your key is a "fixed" one of four attributes, why not simply use an
> ArrayWritable of Text objects, over a MapWritable?
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Choonho Son <choonho....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am newbie.
>>
>> Most of example shows that,
>> job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
>>
>> is it possible job.setOutputKeyClass(MapWritable.class);
>>
>> because my key is combination of values(src IP, src Port, dst Port,
>> dst IP), so I want to use MapWritable as a key.
>>
>> example code is like:
>>
>> MapWritable mkey = new MapWritable();
>> MapWritable mval = new MapWritable();
>>
>> mkey.put(new Text("sip"), new Text(array[3]));
>> mkey.put(new Text("sport"), new Text(array[5]));
>> mkey.put(new Text("proto"), new Text(array[7]));
>> mkey.put(new Text("dport"), new Text(array[6]));
>> mkey.put(new Text("dip"), new Text(array[4]));
>>
>>
>> mval.put(new Text("bcount"), new IntWritable(bcount));
>> mval.put(new Text("pcount"), new IntWritable(pcount));
>>
>> context.write(mkey, mval);
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Harsh J
>
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Harsh J
