Yoni Ben-Meshulam created MRUNIT-165:
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             Summary: MapReduceDriver calls Mapper#cleanup for each input 
instead of once
                 Key: MRUNIT-165
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRUNIT-165
             Project: MRUnit
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 0.9.0
            Reporter: Yoni Ben-Meshulam


MapReduceDriver calls the {{run}} method for each input, causing the 
{{cleanup}} method to be called multiple times. 

I believe this is a bug, since the contract in MapReduce is that, for a single 
Mapper instance, the {{Mapper#cleanup}} method is only called once after all 
inputs to that mapper have been processed. I might be mistaken in my assumption 
here.

This would not be an issue, were it not for the fact that MapReduceDriver has 
only a single instance of Mapper.

One solution might be to pass the Mapper _class_ into the MapReduceDriver and 
create a new instance for each input. Another solution might be to call the 
MapDriver with multiple inputs (which AFAIK is not possible).

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To reproduce, create a MapReduce job with some stateful mapper:

{code}
public class ClosedFormRegressionMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, 
Text, IntWritable> {

    public static final Text KEY = new Text("SomeKey");
    private Int someState = 0;

    /**
     * Increment someState for each input.
     *
     * @param context the Hadoop job Map context
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    @Override
    public void map(
            LongWritable key,
            Text value,
            Context context
    ) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

        this.someState += 1;

    }

    /**
     * Runs once after all maps have occurred. Dumps the accumulated state to 
the output.
     * @param context the Hadoop job Map context
     */
    @Override
    protected void cleanup(Context context) throws IOException, 
InterruptedException {
        context.write(this.KEY, new IntWritable(someState));
    }

}
{code}

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