yes...this i would obtain...but there is a unknown error (for me) in the code:
public final StrConfOption SOURCE_ID = new StrConfOption("Selection.sourceId",null,"select source id"); public final Text subject=new Text(getConf().get("Selection.sourceId")); and from command line: hadoop jar.....-vip....-ca Selection.sourceId="string" i would use <subject> to compare vertex ID values ( defined as Text in my inputFormat) 2014-07-16 12:15 GMT+02:00 Sundara Raghavan Sankaran <sun...@crayondata.com> : > I'm not sure of the use case here, but I'll give an example which might > help you. > > The parameter is given in the command line with -ca (as you said). For > example > hadoop jar sample.jar -vip .... *-ca sample.option1=value1 -ca > sample.option2=value2* > > You can then get this value from the configuration in your computation > class > > *String option1 = getConf().get("sample.option1"); // will get "value1"* > > *String option2 = getConf().get("sample.option2"); // will get "value2"* > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Carmen Manzulli <carmenmanzu...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hi experts, >> I'm trying to insert a string parameter from the command line with >> "-ca"...so in my Computation code i've created a StrConfOption...when >> running i get NPE because it seems to set the value of this string to >> null... >> >> how can i fix this problem? >> > >