[MAPREDUCE-2383] Improve documentation of DistributedCache methods

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.22.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
• Component/s: distributed-cache, documentation
• Labels: newbie
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Harsh J
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 14/Mar/11 19:53
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:18
• Resolved: 12/May/11 07:21

Description

Users find the various methods in DistributedCache confusing - it's not clearly documented what the difference is between addArchiveToClassPath vs addFileToClassPath. We should improve the docs to clarify this and perhaps add an example that uses the DistributedCache.