Thanks All! Warm Regards Arko
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Swathi V <swat...@zinniasystems.com> wrote: > 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. > >