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Raveesh Sharma
Raveesh Sharma

Reputation: 1486

Class Cast exception for the Hadoop new API

i have trying to cough up with some simple code using Map reduce framework. Previously I had implemented using mapred package and I was able to specify the input format class as KeyvalueTextInputFormat But in the new Api using mapreduce this class is not present. I tried using the TextInputFormat.class but i still get the following exception 

- job_local_0001
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.io.Text
    at com.hp.hpl.mapReduceprocessing.MapReduceWrapper$HitFileProccesorMapper_internal.map(MapReduceWrapper.java:1)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:621)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:177)

here is a sample snippet of the code

Configuration conf = new Configuration();
         conf.set("key.value.separator.output.line", ",");    

        Job job = new Job(conf, "Result Aggregation");
        job.setJarByClass(ProcessInputFile.class);

        job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
        job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);

        job.setMapOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setMapOutputValueClass(Text.class);

        job.setMapperClass(MultithreadedMapper.class);
        MultithreadedMapper.setMapperClass(job, HitFileProccesorMapper_internal.class);
        MultithreadedMapper.setNumberOfThreads(job, 3);
        //job.setMapperClass(HitFileProccesorMapper_internal.class);
        job.setReducerClass(HitFileReducer_internal.class);

        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(Text.class);



        FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(inputFileofhits.getName()));
        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(ProcessInputFile.resultAggProps
                .getProperty("OUTPUT_DIRECTORY")));

        try {
            job.waitForCompletion(true);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Please do let me know what are the configuration changes to be made so that classcast exception can be avoided.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1252

Answers (1)

Donald Miner
Donald Miner

Reputation: 39933

This usually happens when there is a type mismatch in what MapReduce is trying to pass through as a key/value and what the Map or Reduce class is templated to have.

You say that you are using KeyvalueTextInputFormat, but in your code you are using TextInputFormat. TextInputFormat delivers records as <LongWritable, Text> : "position, line".

I'm going to guess that the type of your Mapper is <Text, Text, ?, ?>. Therefore, MapReduce is trying to cast the LongWritable that TextInputFormat is giving it to a Text, and it can't, so it bombs out.

I suggest you either KeyvalueTextInputFormat or change the type of your mapper to <LongWritable, Text, ?, ?>.

Upvotes: 1

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