The output value in the map function is in most examples for hadoop
something like this:

public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, outputKey,
outputValue>

Normally outputValue is something like Text or IntWriteable.

I got a custom class with its own properties like

public class Dog {
   string name;
   Date birthday;
   double weight;
}

Now how would I accomplish the following map function:

public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, IntWritable, Dog>

?

That's right, the date needs to be written and read in the same order.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Paul van Hoven <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Great! Thank you.
>
> I guess the order for writing and reading the data this way is
> important. I mean, for
>
> out.writeUTF("blabla")
> out.writeInt(12)
>
> the following would be correct
>
> text = in.readUTF();
> number = in.readInt();
>
> and this would fail:
>
> number = in.readInt();
> text = in.readUTF();
>
> ?
>
> 2013/2/27 Sandy Ryza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > To do this, you need to make your Dog class implement Hadoop's Writable
> > interface, so that it can be serialized to and deserialized from bytes.
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.1.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/Writable.html
> >
> > The methods you implement would look something like this:
> >
> > public void write(DataOutput out) {
> >   out.writeDouble(weight);
> >   out.writeUTF(name);
> >   out.writeLong(date.toTimeInMillis());
> > }
> >
> > public void readFields(DataInput in) {
> >   weight = in.readDouble();
> >   name = in.readUTF();
> >   date = new Date(in.readLong());
> > }
> >
> > hope that helps,
> > Sandy
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Paul van Hoven
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> The output value in the map function is in most examples for hadoop
> >> something like this:
> >>
> >> public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, outputKey,
> >> outputValue>
> >>
> >> Normally outputValue is something like Text or IntWriteable.
> >>
> >> I got a custom class with its own properties like
> >>
> >> public class Dog {
> >>    string name;
> >>    Date birthday;
> >>    double weight;
> >> }
> >>
> >> Now how would I accomplish the following map function:
> >>
> >> public static class Map extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, IntWritable,
> >> Dog>
> >>
> >> ?
> >
> >
>