hi,

i am writing a little util class to recurse into a directory and add all
*.txt files into a sequence file (key is the file name, value is the
content of the corresponding text file). as i am writing (i.e.
SequenceFile.Writer.append(key, value)), is there any way to detect how
large the sequence file is?

for example, i want to create a new sequence file as soon as the current
one exceeds 64 MB.

i notice there is a SequenceFile.Writer.getLong() which the javadocs says
"returns the current length of the output file," but that is vague. what is
this Writer.getLong() method? is it the number of bytes, kilobytes,
megabytes, or something else?

thanks,

I think you mean Writer.getLength(). It returns the current position
in the output stream in bytes (more or less the current size of the
file).

-Joey

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Jane Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am writing a little util class to recurse into a directory and add all
> *.txt files into a sequence file (key is the file name, value is the
> content of the corresponding text file). as i am writing (i.e.
> SequenceFile.Writer.append(key, value)), is there any way to detect how
> large the sequence file is?
>
> for example, i want to create a new sequence file as soon as the current
> one exceeds 64 MB.
>
> i notice there is a SequenceFile.Writer.getLong() which the javadocs says
> "returns the current length of the output file," but that is vague. what is
> this Writer.getLong() method? is it the number of bytes, kilobytes,
> megabytes, or something else?
>
> thanks,

--
Joseph Echeverria
Cloudera, Inc.
443.305.9434

Thanks Joey. That's what I meant (I've been staring at the screen too
long). :)

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Joey Echeverria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think you mean Writer.getLength(). It returns the current position
> in the output stream in bytes (more or less the current size of the
> file).
>
> -Joey
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Jane Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i am writing a little util class to recurse into a directory and add all
> > *.txt files into a sequence file (key is the file name, value is the
> > content of the corresponding text file). as i am writing (i.e.
> > SequenceFile.Writer.append(key, value)), is there any way to detect how
> > large the sequence file is?
> >
> > for example, i want to create a new sequence file as soon as the current
> > one exceeds 64 MB.
> >
> > i notice there is a SequenceFile.Writer.getLong() which the javadocs says
> > "returns the current length of the output file," but that is vague. what
> is
> > this Writer.getLong() method? is it the number of bytes, kilobytes,
> > megabytes, or something else?
> >
> > thanks,
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Echeverria
> Cloudera, Inc.
> 443.305.9434
>