Re: how to pass an object to mapper
There are several ways you can pass static information to tasks in Hadoop. The first is to store it in conf via DefaultStringifier, which needs the object to be serialized either through Writable or Serializable interfaces. Second way would be to save/serialize the data to a file and send it vi
how to pass an object to mapper
It seems that JobConf doesn't help. Do I have to write the object into DFS?