I don't see how you can use deprecated multiple inputs, as if i am not
missing anything, its signature is tied to old api types, such as
JobConf, which you of course won't have as you define a new api job.

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Dhruv Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Isabel and Dmitry,
>
> Thank you for your input on this. I've noticed that Mahout's code uses the
> new mapreduce package, so I have been following the new APIs. This was also
> suggested by Sean w.r.t Mahout-294.
>
> Multiple inputs is a requirement for my project and I was planning on using
> the old mapred.lib.multipleinputs class which is not marked as deprecated in
> 0.20.2:
>
>
> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/lib/MultipleInputs.html
>
> Is this advisable and if not, what are my options to handle multiple inputs?
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dhruv,
>>
>> Just a warning, before you want to lock yourself to new apis:
>>
>> Yes new APIs are preferrable but it is not always possible to use them
>> because 0.20.2 lacks _a lot_ in terms of bare necessities in new api
>> realm . (multiple inputs/ outputs come to mind at once).
>>
>> I think i did weasel my way out of those in some cases but i did not
>> test it at scale yet, it is certainly not an official way to do it.
>>
>> Either way it's probably not worth it for anything beyond sheer basic
>> MR functionality until we switch to something that actually does have
>> the 'new api' because 0.20.2 has some very much truncated version
>> which is very far from complete.
>>
>> -d
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On 18.05.2011 Dhruv Kumar wrote:
>> >> For the GSoC project which version of Hadoop's API should I follow?
>> >
>> > Try to use the new M/R apis where possible - we had the same discussion
>> in an
>> > earlier thread on spectral clustering, in addition Sean just opened an
>> issue
>> > concerning Upgrading to newer Hadoop versions, you can take a look there
>> as
>> > well.
>> >
>> > Isabel
>> >
>>
>

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