I wrote a post on how to use CombineInputFormat:
http://www.idryman.org/blog/2013/09/22/process-small-files-on-hadoop-using-combinefileinputformat-1/
In the RecordReader constructor, you can get the context of which file you are
reading in.
In my example, I created FileLineWritable to include the filename in the mapper
input key.
Then you can use the input key as:
public static class TestMapper extends Mapper<FileLineWritable, Text, Text,
IntWritable>{
private Text txt = new Text();
private IntWritable count = new IntWritable(1);
public void map (FileLineWritable key, Text val, Context context) throws
IOException, InterruptedException{
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(val.toString());
while (st.hasMoreTokens()){
txt.set(key.fileName + st.nextToken());
context.write(txt, count);
}
}
}
Cheers,
Felix
On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:19 AM, rab ra <rab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Yes, I know wholeFileInputFormat. But i am not sure filename comes to map
> process either as key or value. But, I think this file format reads the
> contents of the file. I wish to have a inputformat that just gives filename
> or list of filenames.
>
> Also, files are very small. The wholeFileInputFormat spans one map process
> per file and thus results huge number of map processes. I wish to span a
> single map process per group of files.
>
> I think I need to tweak CombineFileInputFormat's recordreader() so that it
> does not read the entire file but just filename.
>
>
> regards
> rab
>
> regards
> Bala
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at the WholeFileInputFormat implementations? There are quite
> a few if search for them...
>
> http://hadoop-sandy.blogspot.com/2013/02/wholefileinputformat-in-java-hadoop.html
> https://github.com/tomwhite/hadoop-book/blob/master/ch07/src/main/java/WholeFileInputFormat.java
>
> Regards,
> Shahab
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:46 AM, rab ra <rab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a use case wherein i need to process huge set of files stored in HDFS.
> Those files are non-splittable and they need to be processed as a whole.
> Here, I have the following question for which I need answers to proceed
> further in this.
>
> 1. I wish to schedule the map process in task tracker where data is already
> available. How can I do it? Currently, I have a file that contains list of
> filenames. Each map get one line of it via NLineInputFormat. The map process
> then accesses the file via FSDataInputStream and work with it. Is there a way
> to ensure this map process is running on the node where the file is
> available?.
>
> 2. Since the files are not large and it can be called as 'small' files by
> hadoop standard. Now, I came across CombineFileInputFormat that can process
> more than one file in a single map process. What I need here is a format
> that can process more than one files in a single map but does not have to
> read the files, and either in key or value, it has the filenames. In map
> process then, I can run a loop to process these files. Any help?
>
> 3. Any othe alternatives?
>
>
>
> regards
> rab
>
>
>
