Thanks that's helpful. In that example what is "A" and "B" referring to? Is
that the output file name?
mos.getCollector("seq", "A", reporter).collect(key, new Text("Bye"));
mos.getCollector("seq", "B", reporter).collect(key, new Text("Chau"));
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> 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
>
