Re: Creating a custom composite key

2011-08-12 Thread Anthony Urso
This is fairly common. Just write your key as a Java class, implement WritableComparable, and do the right thing with your compareTo() and hashCode()/equals() methods. SecondarySort.IntPair in the examples may be inspirational. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Roger Chen wrote: > Hi all, > Is an

Creating a custom composite key

2011-08-12 Thread Roger Chen
Hi all, Is anybody familiar with how to define a custom composite key in a format such as (Text, Text) so your context written as a key and value could be ((Text, Text) LongWritable)? Thanks, -- Roger Chen UC Davis Genome Center