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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1041:
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David, is there a reason that you've not yet marked this "Patch Available"?
Should I hold off on committing it?
> 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
> Assigned To: David Bowen
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> Attachments: 1041.patch, 1041_1.patch
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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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