Time for action – creating counters, task states, and writing log output

We'll modify our UFORecordValidationMapper to report statistics about skipped records and also highlight some other facilities for recording information about a job:

  1. Create the following as the UFOCountingRecordValidationMapper.java file:
    import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.hadoop.io.* ; import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.* ; import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.* ; public class UFOCountingRecordValidationMapper extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper<LongWritable, Text, LongWritable, Text> { public enum LineCounters { BAD_LINES, TOO_MANY_TABS, TOO_FEW_TABS } ; public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, OutputCollector<LongWritable, Text> output, Reporter reporter) ...

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