Re: Handling bad records

2012-02-28 Thread madhu phatak
Hi Mohit , A and B refers to two different output files (multipart name). The file names will be seq-A* and seq-B*. Its similar to r in part-r-0 On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks that's helpful. In that example what is A and B referring

Re: Handling bad records

2012-02-28 Thread Subir S
Can multiple output be used with Hadoop Streaming? On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, madhu phatak phatak@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mohit , A and B refers to two different output files (multipart name). The file names will be seq-A* and seq-B*. Its similar to r in part-r-0 On Tue, Feb 28,

Re: Handling bad records

2012-02-28 Thread Harsh J
Subir, No, not unless you use a specialized streaming library (pydoop, dumbo, etc. for python, for example). On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Subir S subir.sasiku...@gmail.com wrote: Can multiple output be used with Hadoop Streaming? On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, madhu phatak

Handling bad records

2012-02-27 Thread Mohit Anchlia
What's the best way to write records to a different file? I am doing xml processing and during processing I might come accross invalid xml format. Current I have it under try catch block and writing to log4j. But I think it would be better to just write it to an output file that just contains

Re: Handling bad records

2012-02-27 Thread Harsh J
Mohit, Use the MultipleOutputs API: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputs.html to have a named output of bad records. There is an example of use detailed on the link. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com

Re: Handling bad records

2012-02-27 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Thanks that's helpful. In that example what is A and B referring to? Is that the output file name? mos.getCollector(seq, A, reporter).collect(key, new Text(Bye)); mos.getCollector(seq, B, reporter).collect(key, new Text(Chau)); On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: