Hadoop - Writing to HBase directly from the Mapper

Question

I have a haddop job that its output should be written to HBase. I do not really needs reducer, the kind of row I would like to insert is determined in the Mapper.

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Answer 1

This is the example of reading from file and put all lines into Hbase. This example is from "Hbase: The definitive guide" and you can find it on repository. To get it just clone repo on your computer:

git clone git://github.com/larsgeorge/hbase-book.git

In this book you can also find all the explanations about the code. But if something is incomprehensible for you, feel free to ask.

`    public class ImportFromFile {
     public static final String NAME = "ImportFromFile"; 
     public enum Counters { LINES }

     static class ImportMapper
     extends Mapper { 
       private byte[] family = null;
       private byte[] qualifier = null;

       @Override
       protected void setup(Context context)
         throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         String column = context.getConfiguration().get("conf.column");
         byte[][] colkey = KeyValue.parseColumn(Bytes.toBytes(column));
         family = colkey[0];
         if (colkey.length > 1) {
           qualifier = colkey[1];
         }
       }

       @Override
       public void map(LongWritable offset, Text line, Context context) 
       throws IOException {
          try {
           String lineString = line.toString();
           byte[] rowkey = DigestUtils.md5(lineString); 
           Put put = new Put(rowkey);
           put.add(family, qualifier, Bytes.toBytes(lineString)); 
           context.write(new ImmutableBytesWritable(rowkey), put);
           context.getCounter(Counters.LINES).increment(1);
         } catch (Exception e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
         }
       }
     }

     private static CommandLine parseArgs(String[] args) throws ParseException { 
       Options options = new Options();
       Option o = new Option("t", "table", true,
         "table to import into (must exist)");
       o.setArgName("table-name");
       o.setRequired(true);
       options.addOption(o);
       o = new Option("c", "column", true,
         "column to store row data into (must exist)");
       o.setArgName("family:qualifier");
       o.setRequired(true);
       options.addOption(o);
       o = new Option("i", "input", true,
         "the directory or file to read from");
       o.setArgName("path-in-HDFS");
       o.setRequired(true);
       options.addOption(o);
       options.addOption("d", "debug", false, "switch on DEBUG log level");
       CommandLineParser parser = new PosixParser();
       CommandLine cmd = null;
       try {
         cmd = parser.parse(options, args);
       } catch (Exception e) {
         System.err.println("ERROR: " + e.getMessage() + "\n");
         HelpFormatter formatter = new HelpFormatter();
         formatter.printHelp(NAME + " ", options, true);
         System.exit(-1);
       }
       return cmd;
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
       String[] otherArgs =
         new GenericOptionsParser(conf, args).getRemainingArgs(); 
       CommandLine cmd = parseArgs(otherArgs);
       String table = cmd.getOptionValue("t");
       String input = cmd.getOptionValue("i");
       String column = cmd.getOptionValue("c");
       conf.set("conf.column", column);
       Job job = new Job(conf, "Import from file " + input + " into table " + table); 

            job.setJarByClass(ImportFromFile.class);
       job.setMapperClass(ImportMapper.class);
       job.setOutputFormatClass(TableOutputFormat.class);
       job.getConfiguration().set(TableOutputFormat.OUTPUT_TABLE, table);
       job.setOutputKeyClass(ImmutableBytesWritable.class);
       job.setOutputValueClass(Writable.class);
       job.setNumReduceTasks(0); 
       FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(input));
       System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);
     }
    }`