Mohit, Use the MultipleOutputs API: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleOutputs.html to have a named output of bad records. There is an example of use detailed on the link.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the best way to write records to a different file? I am doing xml > processing and during processing I might come accross invalid xml format. > Current I have it under try catch block and writing to log4j. But I think > it would be better to just write it to an output file that just contains > errors. -- Harsh J
