You can either pass them on as command line argument using -D option. Assuming your job is implementing the standard Tool interface: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/util/Tool.html
Or you can set them in the code using the various 'set' methods to set key/value values in the configuration object. ... Job job = Job.getInstance(getConf()); job.setJarByClass(MyJob.class); job.getConfiguration().set("<property-name>",<value>); .... Docs for Configuration class: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.html This will work as long as the property is not marked final Regards, Shahab On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Answer Agrawal <yrsna.tse...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In xmls configuration file of Hadoop-2.x, > "mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.minsize" is given which can be set > but how to set "mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.maxsize" in xml file. > I need to set it in my mapreduce code. > > Thanks, >