Java tutorial
/** * Author: Martin van Velsen <vvelsen@cs.cmu.edu> * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * */ package edu.cmu.cs.in.hadoop; import org.apache.hadoop.io.RawComparator; import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text; import edu.cmu.cs.in.base.HoopRoot; /** * Future class to work with the partitioner */ public class HoopKeyComparer extends HoopRoot implements RawComparator<Text> { /** * */ public int compare(byte[] text1, int start1, int length1, byte[] text2, int start2, int length2) { // look at first character of each text byte array return new Character((char) text1[0]).compareTo((char) text2[0]); } /** * */ public int compare(Text o1, Text o2) { return compare(o1.getBytes(), 0, o1.getLength(), o2.getBytes(), 0, o2.getLength()); } }