Sorry about the old documentation. I just updated the shortest paths
example. Before major changes to the graph distribution, the vertex ids
were required to be sorted. That is no longer the case. You can input
vertices in any order. The only restriction is that the vertex ids must
be unique (no duplicate vertices). If there are duplicates an exception
will be thrown since duplicates are probably not expected and this is
probably an error. This could be relaxed in the future as well if need
be, but we would need to decide on how to handle duplicates.
Thanks for all the great questions!
Avery
On 2/19/12 11:25 AM, yavuz gokirmak wrote:
Hi,
In Shortest Paths Example it is written that "Currently there is one
restriction on the VertexInputFormat that is not obvious. The vertices
must be sorted.". I didn't understand the reason of this restriction,
why vertices should be ordered?
Secondly, as I understood, we have to transform our initial data into
a form that each line corresponds to a vertex(with edge and values if
exists) in the graph.
For example, I have a data that each row is corresponds to an edge
between to vertices
format1:
a b
a c
a d
b c
b a
c d
Do I have to convert this file into a format similar to below in order
to use with giraph algorithms?
format2:
a b c d
b c a
c d
thanks..
