You can use the get() method to seek and retrieve the value. It will
return null if the key is not in the map. Something like:
Text value = (Text) indexReader.get(from, new Text());
while (value != null && ...)
Tom
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM, schnitzi
<mark.schnitz...@fastsearch.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings all... I have a situation where I want to read a range of keys and
> values out of a MapFile. So I have something like this:
>
> MapFile.Reader indexReader = new MapFile.Reader(fs, path.toString(),
> configuration)
> boolean seekSuccess = indexReader.seek(from);
> boolean readSuccess = indexReader.next(keyValue, value);
> while (readSuccess && ...)
>
> The problem seems to be that while seekSuccess is returning true, when I
> call next() to get the value there, it's returning the value *after* the key
> that I called seek() on. So if, say, my keys are Text("id0") through
> Text("id9"), and I seek for Text("id3"), calling next() will return
> Text("id4") and its associated value, not Text("id3").
>
> I would expect next() to return the key/value at the seek location, not the
> one after it. Am I doing something wrong? Otherwise, what good is seek(),
> really?
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