FileOutputFormat (getWorkOutputPath)

[Kadu canGica Eduardo]

Hi,

what is the right way to use the method getWorkOutputPath from the
FileOutputFormat?

Here is a sample of my code:

public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, OutputCollector<Text, Text>
output, Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
...
     JobConf conf = new JobConf(new Configuration());
     dir = FileOutputFormat.getWorkOutputPath(conf).toString();
...

i'm getting the "java.lang.NullPointerException" error.

what is the solution for this?

Thanks in advance.

Carlos.