I'm looking at the Reporter interface, and I would like to verify my understanding of what it is. It appears to me that Reporter.setStatus() is called periodically during an operation to give a human-readable description of how far the progress is so far. Is that correct?
If so, is there a reason that RecordWriter.close() requires a Reporter (are there situations where it takes a long time)? Also, is there a standard "NullReporter" class for situations where updating is not needed? If not, what does setStatus() do exactly? Thanks in advance for the clarification. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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