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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:38:36 -0700
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Subject: Re: initTableMapperJob with a List of Scans
From: Jeff Kolesky <jeff@opower.com>
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You should be able to get the table name from the split.  Within the map()
method:

((TableSplit)context.getInputSplit()).getTableName()

That will return the name of the table as a byte array.

Jeff


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Eric Z. Beard <ericzbeard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> With a regular map reduce job using MultipleInputs.addInputPath, you can
> specify a different mapper class for each input.  With the HBase
> initTableMapperJob, each Scan Result gets handled by the same mapper.  How
> can you tell which table you are dealing with in the mapper?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Z. Beard


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