Thanks J-D :-) Somehow, I missed the javadocs for TIFB/TIF, which have enough context to get me started.
Norbert On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Norbert, > > Probably the best example is TableInputFormat :) > > J-D > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Norbert Burger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all - can anyone point me in the direction of an example extension of > > TableInputFormatBase? > > > > We are planning on using HBase together with Dumbo (the Python Streaming > > layer). In order to support this, we'll need to write a version of TIF > > that: (a) supports start rows, and (b) implements > > InputFormat<TypedBytesWritable, TypedBytesWritable>, which is the > internal > > format that Dumbo uses to pass data to mappers. > > > > Earlier, I run across > > > https://github.com/yahoo/howl/blob/howl/hbase-handler/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/hbase/HiveHBaseTableInputFormat.java > , > > but I wonder if there's a better example? > > > > Norbert > > >
