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package org.apache.hadoop.contrib.utils.join;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
/**
* This abstract class serves as the base class for the values that
* flow from the mappers to the reducers in a data join job.
* Typically, in such a job, the mappers will compute the source
* tag of an input record based on its attributes or based on the
* file name of the input file. This tag will be used by the reducers
* to re-group the values of a given key according to their source tags.
*
*/
public abstract class TaggedMapOutput implements Writable {
protected Text tag;
public TaggedMapOutput() {
this.tag = new Text("");
}
public Text getTag() {
return tag;
}
public void setTag(Text tag) {
this.tag = tag;
}
public abstract Writable getData();
public TaggedMapOutput clone(JobConf job) {
return (TaggedMapOutput) WritableUtils.clone(this, job);
}
}