Re: A question about Mapper

2008-10-04 Thread Zhou, Yunqing
Thanks a lot for such a detailed explanation.but I think the reducer here is unnecessary, so I set the reducer number to 0. then, I'd like to solve them all in mappers. so I met with the problem. Thanks anyway. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Joman Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I as

Re: A question about Mapper

2008-10-04 Thread Joman Chu
Hello, I assume you want to associate {a,b}, {c,d,e}, and {f} into sets. One way to do this is by associating some value with each flag and then emitting the data associated with that value. For example, flag a b flag c d e flag f I define flag,a,b,c,d,e,f to be the key while in the Mapper con

Re: A question about Mapper

2008-10-03 Thread Zhou, Yunqing
but the close() function doesn't supply me a Collector to put pairs in. Is it reasonable for me to store a reference of the collector in advance? I'm not sure if the collector is still available then. On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Joman Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does Map

Re: A question about Mapper

2008-10-03 Thread Joman Chu
Hello, Does MapReduceBase.close() fit your needs? Take a look at http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapReduceBase.html#close() On Fri, October 3, 2008 11:36 pm, Zhou, Yunqing said: > the input is as follows. flag a b flag c d e flag f > > then I used a mappe

A question about Mapper

2008-10-03 Thread Zhou, Yunqing
the input is as follows. flag a b flag c d e flag f then I used a mapper to first store values and then emit them all when met with a line contains "flag" but when the file reached its end, I have no chance to emit the last record.(in this case ,f) so how can I detect the mapper's end of its life