Thanks for the reply. I tried it but it creates a binary file which i can not understand (i need the result of the first job). The other thing is how can i use this file in the next chained mapper? i.e how can i retrieve the keys and the values in the map function?
Ilyal On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Joey Echeverria <j...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Have you tried SequenceFileOutputFormat and SequenceFileInputFormat? > > -Joey > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, ilyal levin <nipponil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to write a chained mapreduce program. i'm doing so with a > simple > > loop where in each iteration i > > create a job ,execute it and every time the current job's output is the > next > > job's input. > > how can i configure the outputFormat of the current job and the > inputFormat > > of the next job so that > > i will not use the TextInputFormat (TextOutputFormat), because if i do > use > > it, i need to parse the input file in the Map function? > > i.e if possible i want the next job to "consider" the input file as > > <key,value> and not plain Text. > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Joseph Echeverria > Cloudera, Inc. > 443.305.9434 >
