[HADOOP-1040] Improvement of RandomWriter example to use custom InputFormat, OutputFormat, and Counters

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 25/Feb/07 08:34
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 17:06
• Resolved: 26/Feb/07 20:14

Description

It would be good if the RandomWriter example used custom InputFormat and OutputFormats rather than creating temporary files in DFS. It is not only faster, it provides a better example to users of how to handle programs that don't have any input. (It still uses FileSplits rather than custom InputSplits, since the FileSplits would do want I need.)

I also added Counters to the example to count records and bytes written.