Re: Getting job ID from within a running task

[Doug Cutting]

Owen O'Malley wrote:
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.

Static methods might be simpler.  These could be on TaskTracker, or a 
new class just for this purpose.

Doug