Java – How to convert a String object to an IntWritable object in Hadoop

I want to convert a String object to an IntWritable object in Hadoop.
Any process can be converted.

IntWritable value = new IntWritable(Integer.parseInt(someString))

… And handle the possibility that parseInt may throw a NumberFormatException.

Someone asked:

How to overcome this NumberFormatException ???

If someString does not represent an integer, an exception occurs.

What do you do?

Of course you have to capture it and deal with it! How you handle it (i.e. what you should write your application to do) depends on the context. We are unable to advise on this.

Java exceptions and exception handling are described in the Oracle Java tutorial – here