Uploaded image for project: 'Hadoop Common'
  1. Hadoop Common
  2. HADOOP-1041

Counter names are ugly

    XMLWordPrintableJSON

Details

    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.12.0
    • 0.12.0
    • None
    • None

    Description

      Having the complete class name in the counter names makes them unique, but they are ugly to present to non-developers. It would be nice to have some way to have a nicer string presented to the user. Currently, the Enum is converted to a name like:

      key.getDeclaringClass().getName() + "#" + key.toString()

      which gives counter names like "org.apache.hadoop.examples.RandomWriter$Counters#BYTES_WRITTEN"

      which is unique, but not very user friendly. Perhaps, we should strip off the class name for presenting to the users, which would allow them to make nice names. In particular, you could define an enum type that overloaded toString to print a nice user friendly string.

      Thoughts?

      Attachments

        1. 1041_1.patch
          41 kB
          David Bowen
        2. 1041.patch
          40 kB
          David Bowen

        Activity

          People

            dbowen David Bowen
            omalley Owen O'Malley
            Votes:
            0 Vote for this issue
            Watchers:
            0 Start watching this issue

            Dates

              Created:
              Updated:
              Resolved: