On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Sreejith K <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 8, 4:15 am, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Before the next release of Hypertable which will contain the >> ThriftInputFormat/ThriftOutputFormat classes (in hypertable*.jar), >> you'll have to write a custom InputFormat/OutputFormat yourself using >> the Thrift API open_scanner on METADATA table to create the proper >> InputSplits etc. If you don't want to do that. I suggest that you wait >> until (probably some time) next week :) > > Is it possible to write a custom InputFormat/OutputFormat using > Python ? Is there any documentation/code samples for creating custom > InputFormat/OutputFormat ? How do we integrate that with "- > inputformat" option ? I thought I'd give a try with MapReduce before > the next release :)
I don't think it's possible to write an InputFormat/OutputFormat class in python in a straightforward way (you could use Jypthon but it requires both python and Java knowledge) as -inputFormat takes a name of a java class. > Thanks, > > Sreejith K > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hypertable Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hypertable-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
