Hi Mohit , A and B refers to two different output files (multipart name). The file names will be seq-A* and seq-B*. Its similar to "r" in part-r-00000
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > -- Join me at http://hadoopworkshop.eventbrite.com/