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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1041:
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> multiple properties per counter is [...] over-engineering
They could always be added later too, if desired. I'm not overly attached to
that proposal, just thought I'd toss it out, since the proposed names were
looking kind of wordy, mixing both a short label with a description, which are
both useful, but in different places.
> Counter names are ugly
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> Key: HADOOP-1041
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1041
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> Having the complete class name in the counter names makes them unique, but
> they are ugly to present to non-developers. It would be nice to have some way
> to have a nicer string presented to the user. Currently, the Enum is
> converted to a name like:
> key.getDeclaringClass().getName() + "#" + key.toString()
> which gives counter names like
> "org.apache.hadoop.examples.RandomWriter$Counters#BYTES_WRITTEN"
> which is unique, but not very user friendly. Perhaps, we should strip off the
> class name for presenting to the users, which would allow them to make nice
> names. In particular, you could define an enum type that overloaded toString
> to print a nice user friendly string.
> Thoughts?
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