Hadoop mapreduce : Driver for chaining mappers within a MapReduce job

Question

I have mapreduce job: my code Map class:

public static class MapClass extends Mapper {

    @Override
    public void m         


        

Answer 1

Actually the mapper class has to implement the interface org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Mapper. I had the same problem, but this solved it.

Answer 2

You have to use Configuration instead of JobConf. JobConf is a subclass of Configuration, so there should exist a constructor for that.

Answer 3

After a lot of "Kung Fu", I was able to use ChainMapper/ChainReducer. Thanks for last comment user864846.

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package myPKG;

/* 
 * Ajitsen: Sample program for ChainMapper/ChainReducer. This program is modified version of WordCount example available in Hadoop-0.18.0. Added ChainMapper/ChainReducer and made to works in Hadoop 1.0.2. 
 */

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.ChainMapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.ChainReducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner;

public class ChainWordCount extends Configured implements Tool {

    public static class Tokenizer extends MapReduceBase
    implements Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, IntWritable> {

        private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
        private Text word = new Text();

        public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, 
                OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output, 
                Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
            String line = value.toString();
            System.out.println("Line:"+line);
            StringTokenizer itr = new StringTokenizer(line);
            while (itr.hasMoreTokens()) {
                word.set(itr.nextToken());
                output.collect(word, one);
            }
        }
    }

    public static class UpperCaser extends MapReduceBase
    implements Mapper<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable> {

        public void map(Text key, IntWritable value, 
                OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output, 
                Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
            String word = key.toString().toUpperCase();
            System.out.println("Upper Case:"+word);
            output.collect(new Text(word), value);    
        }
    }

    public static class Reduce extends MapReduceBase
    implements Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable> {

        public void reduce(Text key, Iterator<IntWritable> values,
                OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output, 
                Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
            int sum = 0;
            while (values.hasNext()) {
                sum += values.next().get();
            }
            System.out.println("Word:"+key.toString()+"\tCount:"+sum);
            output.collect(key, new IntWritable(sum));
        }
    }

    static int printUsage() {
        System.out.println("wordcount <input> <output>");
        ToolRunner.printGenericCommandUsage(System.out);
        return -1;
    }

    public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JobConf conf = new JobConf(getConf(), ChainWordCount.class);
        conf.setJobName("wordcount");

        if (args.length != 2) {
            System.out.println("ERROR: Wrong number of parameters: " +
                    args.length + " instead of 2.");
            return printUsage();
        }
        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(conf, args[0]);
        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(conf, new Path(args[1]));

        conf.setInputFormat(TextInputFormat.class);
        conf.setOutputFormat(TextOutputFormat.class);

        JobConf mapAConf = new JobConf(false);
        ChainMapper.addMapper(conf, Tokenizer.class, LongWritable.class, Text.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, true, mapAConf);

        JobConf mapBConf = new JobConf(false);
        ChainMapper.addMapper(conf, UpperCaser.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, true, mapBConf);

        JobConf reduceConf = new JobConf(false);
        ChainReducer.setReducer(conf, Reduce.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class, true, reduceConf);

        JobClient.runJob(conf);
        return 0;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        int res = ToolRunner.run(new Configuration(), new ChainWordCount(), args);
        System.exit(res);
    }
}

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EDIT in latest version (at least from hadoop 2.6), the true flag in addMapper is not needed. (in fact the signature has change suppression it`).

So it would be just

JobConf mapAConf = new JobConf(false);
ChainMapper.addMapper(conf, Tokenizer.class, LongWritable.class, Text.class,
                      Text.class, IntWritable.class, mapAConf);

Answer 4

For the First argument of your ChainMapper.addMapper(), you have passed the job object. While the function is expecting a object of type JobConf. Rewriting to :

 ChainMapper.addMapper(
            (JobConf)conf, 
            MapClass.class, 
            Text.class, 
            Text.class, 
            Text.class, 
            Text.class, 
            true, 
            map1
            ); 

should solve the problem..