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

First, the new API did not finished in 0.20.* so if you want to use new API in 0.20.*, you should implement the feature by yourself.For example you can use FileInputFormat to achieve. Ignore the LongWritable key, and split the Text value on comma yourself.