Re: about jobConf.set(String,Object)

[wangxu]

OK,I will encode the Objects to String then.
Ion Badita wrote:

wangxu wrote:

Can I set an Object other than "String" Class in a job's context?
like I call
   job.set("test",new SomeOtherClass());
and get it from
   job.getObject("test");
??

I did so ,but always comes out the ClassCastException.
thanks.

When the job gets "serialized" it saves only the String values.