Okay, thanks.... Ill look into this JIRA . it is clear from some light googling that, at some point
** some version of JobConf was deprecated, and that maybe again it was undeprecated or maybe moved....** Will have to look into this more formally to really determine what's going on. On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:16 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > Am not sure I totally understand yet. JobConf isn't deprecated, and is > still a (and the only) valid way to use the older mapred.* API. > > If you mean we should shift the tests over to the new API > (mapreduce.*, and Job) then am all for it. > > The Tool+Configured extensions are good for ToolRunner.run(…) invoked > classes, which I guess is also a good way to write a base test > invoking class, but you'd have to end up changing a lot of test > classes for this. > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Only one response, inline below... Certainly I will file a JIRA and some >> updates if this makes sense :).... >> >> Would love to bring the minimrcluster class up to date! >> >> On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why do you imagine a test case would need the Configured and Tool >>> interfaces, which are more useful for actual client apps? >> >> Because - the JobConf is deprecated --- then shouldn't the classes which >> depend upon it be update to use the Configured interface? >> >> >>> Or did you mean these should support running Tool apps? >>> >>>> Any plans to update this or should file a JIRA? >>> >>> No plans as far as I'm aware; please do file a JIRA with a patch if >>> this makes sense to improve. Also do check out trunk first. >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi guys: >>>> >>>> the MiniMapRedCluster seems like a very useful tool which I just discovered >>>> in this blog post : >>>> >>>> http://grepalex.com/2012/10/20/hadoop-unit-testing-with-minimrcluster/ >>>> >>>> But it looks like MiniMapRedCluster >>>> >>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/tags/release-1.0.3/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/ClusterMapReduceTestCase.java?view=co >>>> >>>> is still using JobConf instead of the Configured/Tool interface. >>>> >>>> Any plans to update this or should file a JIRA? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jay Vyas >>>> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Harsh J > > > > -- > Harsh J
