No. It used to work this way, but was removed just because you get much better memory and performance using longs. It would be a lot of surgery to undo this.
The best answer is to use longs. If you must use strings, IDMigrator does the trick quite well. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Claudia Grieco <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you think it's worth the work to change the internal code of Mahout in > order to use string identifiers? > Thanks > Claudia >
