Hi all. I'm struggling a bit to figure this out and wondering if anyone had any pointers.
I'm using SequenceFiles as output from a MapReduce job ( using SequenceFileOutputFormat ) and then in a followup MapReduce job reading in the results using SequenceFileInputFormat. All seems to work fine. What I haven't figured out is how to write the SequenceFile.Metadata in the SequenceFileOutputFormat and then read the metadata in SequenceFileInputFormat. Is that possible to do using the new mapreduce.* API? I have two types of files I want to process in the Mapper. Currently I'm using the context.getInputSplit() and parsing the resulting fileSplit.getPath() to determine what file I'm processing. It seems cleaner to use the SequenceFile.Metadata if I can. Does that make sense or am I off in the weeds? Thanks Andy
