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>
>
> ?
>

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>
>>
>> ?
>
>