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From: Harsh J <qwertymaniac@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:20:29 +0530
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Subject: Re: Old API: obtaining task attempt ID in the mapper?
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The JobConf will contain a property name-value pair for this. See the
table below for task-local properties:
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.2/mapred_tutorial.html#Task+JVM+Reuse

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlieu.7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am doing a piece of backporting some code to old API. i have a need to
> obtain task attempt id within mapper initialization, which is passed in thru
> context in the new API. However, in the old api i only have
> JobConfigurable#configure() which passes in JobConf.
> How do i obtain task id attempt (i actually need just task id) in the old
> api (0.20 platform)?
> Thank you very much.
> -Dmitriy


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