----- Original Message -----
From: Arko Provo Mukherjee <arkoprovomukher...@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 1:26 pm
Subject: Issues with Distributed Caching
To: mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Hello,
>
> I am having the following problem with Distributed Caching.
>
> *In the driver class, I am doing the following:
> (/home/arko/MyProgram/datais a directory created as an output of
> another map-reduce)*
>
> *FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(jobconf_seed);
>
> String init_path = "/home/arko/MyProgram/data";
>
> System.out.println("Caching files in " + init_path);
>
> FileStatus[] init_files = fs.listStatus(new Path(init_path));
>
> for ( int i = 0; i < init_files.length; i++ ) {
>
> Path p = init_files[i].getPath();
> DistributedCache.addCacheFile ( p.toUri(), jobconf );
> }*
>
I am not clearly sure about this. But looking at this, if you do addCacheFile,
it will set the files to mapred.cache.files.
I think you are getting localCacheFiles ( it will try to get the value with
,apred.cache.localFiles) . Looks that value is coming as null. Please check
whether you are setting that values correctly or not.
> This is executing fine.
>
> *I have the following code in the configure method of the Map class:*
>
> *public void configure(JobConf job) {
>
> try {
>
> fs = FileSystem.getLocal(new Configuration());
> Path [] localFiles = DistributedCache.getLocalCacheFiles(job);
>
> for ( Path p:localFiles ) {
>
> BufferedReader file_reader = new BufferedReader(new
> InputStreamReader(fs.open(p)));
>
> String line = file_reader.readLine();
>
> while ( line != null ) {
>
> // Do something with the data
>
> line = C0_file.readLine();
>
> }
>
> }
>
> } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
>
> System.err.println("ERROR!! Cannot open filesystem from Map for
> reading!!");e.printStackTrace();
> }
> }*
>
> This is giving me a java.lang.NullPointerException:
> 11/11/08 01:36:17 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id :
> attempt_201106271322_12775_m_000003_1, Status : FAILED
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at Map.configure(Map.java:57)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:58)at
> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:83)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.configure(MapRunner.java:34)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:58)at
> org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:83)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:328)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:155)
>
>
> I am doing it in a wrong way? I followed a lot of links and this
> seems to
> be the way to go about it. Please help!
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Warm regards
> Arko
>
