Yes, your thought was right! Using SequenceFileInputFormat should work
fine (MapFile is just a specialization of it, a sorted one), so just
pass the input paths to it.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Asif Jan wrote:
> Hi
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> any pointers on how to use the MapFile with new mapreduce API.
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> I did find the correspondinf output format e.g.
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.MapFileOutputFormat, but was not able
> to see how I can specify MapFileInputFormat ? (naively I thought that
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.SequenceFileInputFormat;
> should work for MapFile as well)
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> will I have to implement RecordReader in order to read from a MapFile ?
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