Can you be more specific on how to perform this. In general is there a way to convert the binary files i have to text files?
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:26 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>wrote: > On 09/06/2011 01:57 AM, Niels Basjes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In the past i've had the same situation where I needed the data for >> debugging. Back then I chose to create a second job with simply >> SequenceFileInputFormat, IdentityMapper, IdentityReducer and finally >> TextOutputFormat. >> >> In my situation that worked great for my purpose. >> > > I did similar at my last job, but rather than writing a 2nd map/reduce job > for this, we just wrote a simple command line app that used the Hadoop Java > API to dump the contents of the binary file as text (JSON) to the console. > > HTH, > > DR >
