Why is MultipleOutputs not working for this Map Reduce program? - hadoop

Question

I have a Mapper class that is giving a text key and IntWritable value which could be 1 two or three. Depending upon the values I have to write three different files with different keys. I am getting a Single File output with No record in it.
Also, is there any good Multiple Outputs example(with explanation) you could guide me to?
My Driver Class Had this code:
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "name", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class);
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "attributes", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class);
MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "others", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, IntWritable.class);
My reducer class is:
public static class Reduce extends Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, NullWritable> {
private MultipleOutputs mos;
public void setup(Context context) {
mos = new MultipleOutputs(context);
}
public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<IntWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
int sum = 0;
String CheckKey = values.toString();
if("1".equals(CheckKey)) {
mos.write("name", key, new IntWritable(1));
}
else if("2".equals(CheckKey)) {
mos.write("attributes", key, new IntWritable(2));
}
else if("3".equals(CheckKey)) {
mos.write("others", key,new IntWritable(3));
}
/* for (IntWritable val : values) {
sum += val.get();
}*/
//context.write(key, null);
}
#Override
public void cleanup(Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
mos.close();
}
}
P.S I am new to HADOOP/MAP-Reduce Programming.

Answer 1

ArrayList<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>();
l.add(1);
System.out.println(l.toString());
results in "[1]" not 1 so
values.toString()
will not give "1"
Apart from that I just tried to print an Iterable and it just gave a reference, so that is definitely your problem. If you want to iterate over the values do as in the example below:
Iterator<Text> valueIterator = values.iterator();
while (valueIterator.hasNext()){
}
Note that you can only iterate once!

Answer 2

Your problem statement is muddled. What do you mean, "depending on the values"? The reducer gets an Iterable of values, not a single value. Something tells me that you need to move the multiple output code in your reducer inside the loop you have commented out for taking the sum.
Or perhaps you don't need a reducer at all and can take care of this in the map phase. If you are using the reduce phase to end up with exactly 4 files by using a single reduce task, then you can also achieve what you want by flipping the key and value in your map phase and forgetting about MultipleOutputs altogether, because you'll end up with only 3 working reduce tasks, one for each of your int values. To get the 4th one you can output two copies of the record in each map call using a special key to indicate that the output is meant for the normal file, not one of the three special files. Normally I would not recommend such a course of action as you have severe bounds on the level of parallelism you can achieve in the reduce phase when the number of keys is small.
You should also include some anomalous data handling code to the end of your 'if' ladder that increments a counter or something if you encounter a value that is not one of the three you are expecting.