Hi, I guess you can make use of job.getconfiguration().set() in driver to set the variable and in mapper you can make use of setup method like this: Configuration conf = context.getconfiguration(); somevar = conf.get();
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Arko Provo Mukherjee < arkoprovomukher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to pass some data from the driver class to the Mapper > class without going through the HDFS? > > Does the API provide us with some functionality to pass some variables? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Warm regards > Arko > -- Regards, Swathi.V.
