Just checked the Hadoop 0.21.0 API docs (I was looking in the wrong docs before) and it doesn't look like MapRunner is deprecated so I'll try catching the error there and will report back if it's a good solution. Thanks!
~Ed On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:23 AM, ed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The MapRunner classes looks promising. I noticed it is in the deprecated > mapred package but I didn't see an equivalent class in the mapreduce > package. Is this going to ported to mapreduce or is it no longer being > supported? Thanks! > > ~Ed > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If it occurs eventually as your record reader reads it, then you may >> use a MapRunner class instead of a Mapper IFace/Subclass. This way, >> you may try/catch over the record reader itself, and call your map >> function only on valid next()s. I think this ought to work. >> >> You can set it via JobConf.setMapRunnerClass(...). >> >> Ref: MapRunner API @ >> >> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/MapRunner.html >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:14 AM, ed <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have a simple map-reduce job that reads in zipped files and converts >> them >> > to lzo compression. Some of the files are not properly zipped which >> results >> > in Hadoop throwing an "java.io.EOFException: Unexpected end of input >> stream >> > error" and causes the job to fail. Is there a way to catch this >> exception >> > and tell hadoop to just ignore the file and move on? I think the >> exception >> > is being thrown by the class reading in the Gzip file and not my mapper >> > class. Is this correct? Is there a way to handle this type of error >> > gracefully? >> > >> > Thank you! >> > >> > ~Ed >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Harsh J >> www.harshj.com >> > >
