Dose hadoop just provide reading by line

hi colleague,

Does hadoop just provide reading the files from line to
line?
How can I read many lines from a file?

thanks

-- 
Bin YANG
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Fudan University
Shanghai, P. R. China
EMail: yangbinisme82gmail.com

Hi Bin YANG,
it can read as many lines/bytes as you want - but you need
to implement 
your own RecordReader 
(http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/ap
i/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/RecordReader.html) 
for this (and InputFormat in order to make it usable for
your jobs...)
Just take a look at the LineRecordReader as a starting point
on how to 
implement a RecordReader.

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...you wrote:
> hi colleague,
>
> Does hadoop just provide reading the files from line to
line?
> How can I read many lines from a file?
>
> thanks

Are you talking about reading arbitrary files from HDFS?
You can just get a regular InputStream to a Path:

JobConf conf = new JobConf(SomeJob.class);
FileSystem hdfs = FileSystem.get(conf);
FSDataInputStream inputStream = hdfs.open(new
Path("/my/path"));
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new 
InputStreamReader(inputStream));
String s = reader.readLine();

Fabrice

Bin YANG wrote:
> hi colleague,
> 
> Does hadoop just provide reading the files from line to
line?
> How can I read many lines from a file?
> 
> thanks
>