Hi Ryan,
You can access your file as it were in the local working directory
For instance you need to access it as
Stringmyfile = "./mydatafile.txt"; // local file
Then you open it with a normal FileReader as follows
try
{
FileReader fr = new FileReader(blacklistUAfile); //reading the file and loading that into memory
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.err.println("invalid data file ; error - " + e.getMessage());
return false;
}
I have not tried using the hadoop APIs to access this file, but you can code anything you want in Java to work with your file.
Hope this helps,
Eric Arenas
----- Original Message ----
From: Ryan LeCompte <lecompte@gmail.com>
To: hive-user@hadoop.apache.org
Sent: Fri, October 30, 2009 2:35:26 PM
Subject: Accessing distributed cache from UDF
Hello all,
Is this possible? If I add a file to distributed cache via ADD FILE, could I access it in my Java-based user defined function using the Hadoop APIs or is this not a good idea?
Thanks,
Ryan
