Um, you are running the Netflix example on the GroupLens data set. Of
course this doesn't work.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got the following errors when running:
>
> $ mvn -X -e  -q exec:java
> -Dexec.mainClass="org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixRecommenderEvaluatorRunner"
> -Dexec.args="-i /home/yyang/work/mahout/trunk/examples/data/ml-1m/"
>
>
>
>
> [DEBUG] joining on thread
> Thread[org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixRecommenderEvaluatorRunner.main(),5,org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixRecommenderEvaluatorRunner]
> [DEBUG] Setting accessibility to true in order to invoke main().
> 11/10/21 13:52:01 INFO netflix.NetflixDataModel: Creating
> NetflixDataModel for directory:
> /home/yyang/work/mahout/trunk/examples/data/ml-1m
> 11/10/21 13:52:01 INFO netflix.NetflixDataModel: Reading preference data...
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] An exception occured while executing the Java class. null
>
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [DEBUG] Trace
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: An exception
> occured while executing the Java class. null
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
>        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
>        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
>        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>        at 
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>        at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
>        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
>        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
>        at 
> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
>        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
> Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: An
> exception occured while executing the Java class. null
>        at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo.execute(ExecJavaMojo.java:346)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
>        at 
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
>        ... 17 more
> Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>        at 
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
>        at 
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
>        at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo$1.run(ExecJavaMojo.java:291)
>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>        at 
> org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixDataModel.readUsers(NetflixDataModel.java:79)
>        at 
> org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixDataModel.<init>(NetflixDataModel.java:68)
>        at 
> org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.example.netflix.NetflixRecommenderEvaluatorRunner.main(NetflixRecommenderEvaluatorRunner.java:44)
>        ... 6 more
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Fri Oct 21 13:52:01 PDT 2011
> [INFO] Final Memory: 23M/127M
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It depends on which example you are running! For GroupLens, yes, it's
>> the movies.dat file.
>>
>> I will warn you that I think the various GroupLens data sets have
>> different input formats. Some are comma-separated, which is what you
>> need, and some are separated by "::". Open the file and look. If it is
>> the latter, you need to change it to comma-separated form.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> in the recommendation examples
>>>
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/RecommendationExamples
>>>
>>> it mentions the "-i input_file " parameter,
>>>
>>> but the downloaded movie-lens dataset is a zip, and contains multiple
>>> .dat files, which one should I use?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Yang
>>>
>>
>
>
> how do I debug this?
>

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