org.apache.avro.mapred
Class AvroAsTextInputFormat

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat<Text,Text>
      org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroAsTextInputFormat

All Implemented Interfaces:

InputFormat<Text,Text>

public class AvroAsTextInputFormat
extends FileInputFormat<Text,Text>

An InputFormat for Avro data files, which converts each datum to string form in the input key. The input value is always empty. The string representation is JSON.

This InputFormat is useful for applications that wish to process Avro data using tools like MapReduce Streaming.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat

LOG

Constructor Summary

AvroAsTextInputFormat()

Method Summary

RecordReader<Text,Text>	getRecordReader(InputSplit split, JobConf job, Reporter reporter)
protected FileStatus[]	listStatus(JobConf job)

Methods inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat

addInputPath, addInputPaths, computeSplitSize, getBlockIndex, getInputPathFilter, getInputPaths, getSplitHosts, getSplits, isSplitable, setInputPathFilter, setInputPaths, setInputPaths, setMinSplitSize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AvroAsTextInputFormat

public AvroAsTextInputFormat()

Method Detail

listStatus

protected FileStatus[] listStatus(JobConf job)
                           throws IOException

Overrides:

listStatus in class FileInputFormat<Text,Text>

Throws:

IOException

getRecordReader

public RecordReader<Text,Text> getRecordReader(InputSplit split,
                                               JobConf job,
                                               Reporter reporter)
                                        throws IOException

Specified by:

getRecordReader in interface InputFormat<Text,Text>

Specified by:

getRecordReader in class FileInputFormat<Text,Text>

Throws:

IOException