Re: Getting job ID from within a running task

[Owen O'Malley]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
Owen O'Malley wrote:
In particular, conf.get("mapred.job.id") and conf.get 
("mapred.task.id") will do the job.

Should we add JobConf methods for these?

We should probably have a TaskConf that does:

public class TaskConf extends JobConf {
  public String getJobId() {...}
  public String getTaskId() {...}
}

since they don't really make much sense except for the object that is  
passed down to the tasks.