Ajay, Take a look at MultipleInputs: See Page 214 | Chapter 7: MapReduce Types and Formats of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (2nd edition) by Tom White (O'Reilly) and also http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/MultipleInputs.html
This class will solve your need, just use a common mapper with them. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Ajay Srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If there are two inputs to a hadoop job one is text and another is binary > (Sequence file), is there a way to set InputFormatClass to these two > different streams ? > job.setInputFormatClass will set to one type of input. Does that mean a > hadoop job can not take input in two different formats? > > > > Thanks. > Ajay Srivastava -- Harsh J
