You'll need to write your own, I'm afraid. You should subclass FileInputFormat and go from there. You may want to look at TextInputFormat / LineRecordReader for an example of how an IF/RR gets put together, but there isn't an existing fixed-len record reader.
- Aaron On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:59 PM, yz5od2 <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I have input files, that contain NO carriage returns/line feeds. Each > record is a fixed length (i.e. 202 bytes). > > Which FileInputFormat should I be using? so that each call to my Mapper > receives one K,V pair, where the KEY is null or something (I don't care) and > the VALUE is the 202 byte record? > > thanks! >
