ClassCastException: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException in mapred
I’m writing a mapreduce application that accepts input in (key, value) format and displays only the same data as the reducer output.
Here is the sample input:
1500s 1
1960s 1
Aldus 1
In the code below, I specify the input format using <<>> and the delimiter as a tab character in main(). When I run the code, I get the error message:
java.lang.Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.io.Text cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.runTasks(LocalJobRunner.java:462)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:522)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.io.Text cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable
at cscie63.examples.WordDesc$KVMapper.map(WordDesc.java:1)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:145)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:787)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job$MapTaskRunnable.run(LocalJobRunner.java:243)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
Tried different debugging methods but to no avail.
public class WordDesc {
public static class KVMapper
extends Mapper<Text, LongWritable, Text, LongWritable>{
private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
private Text word = new Text();
public void map(Text key, LongWritable value , Context context
) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
context.write(key,value);
}
}
public static class KVReducer
extends Reducer<Text,LongWritable,Text,LongWritable> {
private IntWritable result = new IntWritable();
public void reduce(Text key, LongWritable value,
Context context
) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
context.write(key, value);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
conf.set("mapreduce.input.keyvaluelinerecordreader.key.value.separator", "\t");
String[] otherArgs = new GenericOptionsParser(conf, args).getRemainingArgs();
if (otherArgs.length < 2) {
System.err.println("Usage: wordcount <in> [<in>...] <out>");
System.exit(2);
}
Job job = new Job(conf, "word desc");
job.setInputFormatClass(KeyValueTextInputFormat.class);
job.setJarByClass(WordDesc.class);
job.setMapperClass(KVMapper.class);
job.setCombinerClass(KVReducer.class);
job.setReducerClass(KVReducer.class);
job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
job.setOutputValueClass(LongWritable.class);
for (int i = 0; i < otherArgs.length - 1; ++i) {
FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(otherArgs[i]));
}
FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job,
new Path(otherArgs[otherArgs.length - 1]));
System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);
}
}
Solution
I guess this line job.setInputFormatClass(KeyValueTextInputFormat.class);
The program that tells you treats your input as Text
. Therefore, you receive this exception when you ask that the input value be LongWritable
.
A quick fix is to read your input as text, and then, if you want to use LongWritable, parse it using the following method:
public static class KVMapper
extends Mapper<Text, Text, Text, LongWritable>{
private final static LongWritable val = new LongWritable();
public void map(Text key, Text value, Context context) {
val.set(Long.parseLong(value.toString()));
context.write(key,val);
}
}
Here’s what it does: value is Text, then value.toString
() gives the String representation of the Text, and then Long.parseLong() parses
the string as long. Finally, val.set()
converts it to LongWritable.
By the way, I don’t think you need to use Reducer for this… You can make the Reduce task faster by setting the number of reduce tasks to 0.