How to specify KeyValueTextInputFormat Separator in Hadoop-.20 api?

Question

In new API (apache.hadoop.mapreduce.KeyValueTextInputFormat) , how to specify separator (delimiter) other than tab(which is default) to separate key and Value.

Samp

Answer 1

It's a sequence matter.

The first line conf.set("key.value.separator.in.input.line", ",") must come before you create an instance of Job class. So:

conf.set("key.value.separator.in.input.line", ","); 
Job job = new Job(conf);