[HADOOP-3700] Define User exception which can be thrown by user code to skip records

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sharad Agarwal
• Created: 07/Jul/08 06:44
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:52
• Resolved: 21/Aug/08 10:14

Description

Currently there is no way, where user code can throw a specific Exception to notify the framework about skipping that record and move forward.
This can be implemented in map, reduce, combine, and output format (maybe) as well as input method.
To get the skip behavior, the user needs to write code that throws these exceptions, so this would not change the systems default behavior.