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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:52:11 -0700
From: Kim Ebert <kim@reflectivedevelopment.com>
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Thanks for your help Harsh.

Kim

On 11/18/2011 12:18 PM, Harsh J wrote:
> Kim,
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> Yes.
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> See the discussion at http://search-hadoop.com/m/jzO0k18XoNW1
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> On 19-Nov-2011, at 12:43 AM, Kim Ebert wrote:
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>> I was wondering if a context.write is possible in the cleanup of a Mapper.
>>
>> For example, if the map function queues the item in an external process, and then in the cleanup phase all the results from the external process are mapped.
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>>  From looking at how the map reduce process works, I would think this is possible.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kim
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