Hassen,
You can supply your own custom input format to hadoop. If you look at the code
for SleepJob it has a custom input format that does not require any input files
at all. I am not really sure how streaming will deal with a mapper that has no
input, but I assume it should be OK.
--Bobby E
Hi all,
I am using the streaming library of hadoop-0.20 to be able to write map and
reduce functions in python.
Is it possible to make hadoop MapReduce not opening the input files? the map
function does not need the stream of input files contents. Has someone tried
this already?
Thanks!
Hassen
