tJavaMR
Provides an editor that enables you to enter personalized MapReduce code in order
to integrate it in Talend
program.
tJavaMR makes it possible to extend the functionalities
of a Talend Job through
writing custom map and reduce methods. You can execute this code only once.
This component appears only when you are
creating a Map/Reduce Job.
tJavaMR MapReduce properties (deprecated)
These properties are used to configure tJavaMR running in the MapReduce Job framework.
The MapReduce
tJavaMR component belongs to the Custom Code family.
The component in this framework is available in all Talend Platform products with Big Data and in Talend Data Fabric.
The MapReduce framework is deprecated from Talend 7.3 onwards. Use Talend Jobs for Apache Spark to accomplish your integration tasks.
Basic settings
Schema and Edit |
A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields |
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Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component |
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Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the |
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Click Edit
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Map only |
Select this check box to edit and use a custom mapper only. In |
Map code |
Enter the body of the map method you want to execute. This component automatically defines the other parts of the map For example, you put word as Note that the text displayed above the Map For further information about a map method and the intermediate For further information about Java functions syntax specific to For a complete Java reference, check http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/. |
mrKeyStruct and mrValueStruct |
In these two tables, add the columns you want to use to compose |
Reduce code |
Enter the body of the reduce method you want to execute according This component automatically defines the shuffle and sort phases For example, you put word as Note that the text displayed above the Reduce code editing field indicates the parameters For further information about a reduce method and its related For further information about Java functions syntax specific to For a complete Java reference, check http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/. |
Advanced settings
Map advanced code |
This area allows you to define the classes, variables and methods Three fields are available for this purpose:
Implement the prepare code:
Implement the configure method:
Implement the close method: |
Reduce advanced code |
This area allows you to define the classes, variables and methods Three fields are available for this purpose:
Implement the prepare code:
Implement the configure method:
Implement the close method: |
Global Variables
Global Variables |
ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl + For further information about variables, see |
Usage
Usage rule |
Once a Map/Reduce Job is opened in the workspace, tJavaMR appears in the Palette of the Studio. It is used as an Note that in this documentation, unless otherwise |
Hadoop Connection |
You need to use the Hadoop Configuration tab in the This connection is effective on a per-Job basis. |
Counting words using custom map and reduce code (deprecated)
This scenario applies only to subscription-based Talend products with Big
Data.
Inspired by the MapReduce example explained in Apache’s documentation on http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/WordCount, this scenario demonstrates how to
use tJavaMR to create a MapReduce program to count
words.

1 2 |
Hello world goodbye world Hello hadoop bye Hadoop |
Before starting to replicate this scenario, ensure that you have appropriate rights
and permissions to access the Hadoop distribution to be used. Then proceed as
follows:
Linking components
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In the
Integration
perspective
of the Studio, create an empty Map/Reduce Job from the
Job Designs node in the Repository tree view.For further information about how to create a Map/Reduce Job, see
Talend Open Studio for Big Data Getting Started Guide
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Drop a tHDFSInput component, a tJavaMR component, and a tHDFSOutput component in the workspace.
The tHDFSInput component reads data from
the Hadoop distribution to be used and the tHDFSOutput component writes processed data into a that
distribution. -
Connect these components using the Row >
Main link.
Setting up Hadoop connection
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Click Run to open its view and then click the
Hadoop Configuration tab to display its
view for configuring the Hadoop connection for this Job. -
From the Property type list,
select Built-in. If you have created the
connection to be used in Repository, then
select Repository and thus the Studio will
reuse that set of connection information for this Job. -
In the Version area, select the
Hadoop distribution to be used and its version.-
If you use Google Cloud Dataproc, see Google Cloud Dataproc.
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If you cannot
find the Cloudera version to be used from this drop-down list, you can add your distribution
via some dynamic distribution settings in the Studio. -
If you cannot find from the list the distribution corresponding to
yours, select Custom so as to connect to a
Hadoop distribution not officially supported in the Studio. For a
step-by-step example about how to use this
Custom option, see Connecting to a custom Hadoop distribution.
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In the Name node field, enter the location of
the master node, the NameNode, of the distribution to be used. For example,
hdfs://tal-qa113.talend.lan:8020.-
If you are using a MapR distribution, you can simply leave maprfs:/// as it is in this field; then the MapR
client will take care of the rest on the fly for creating the connection. The
MapR client must be properly installed. For further information about how to set
up a MapR client, see the following link in MapR’s documentation: http://doc.mapr.com/display/MapR/Setting+Up+the+Client -
If you are using WebHDFS, the location should be
webhdfs://masternode:portnumber; WebHDFS with SSL is not
supported yet.
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In the Resource Manager field,
enter the location of the ResourceManager of your distribution. For example,
tal-qa114.talend.lan:8050.-
Then you can continue to set the following parameters depending on the
configuration of the Hadoop cluster to be used (if you leave the check
box of a parameter clear, then at runtime, the configuration about this
parameter in the Hadoop cluster to be used will be ignored):-
Select the Set resourcemanager
scheduler address check box and enter the Scheduler address in
the field that appears. -
Select the Set jobhistory
address check box and enter the location of the JobHistory
server of the Hadoop cluster to be used. This allows the metrics information of
the current Job to be stored in that JobHistory server. -
Select the Set staging
directory check box and enter this directory defined in your
Hadoop cluster for temporary files created by running programs. Typically, this
directory can be found under the yarn.app.mapreduce.am.staging-dir property in the configuration files
such as yarn-site.xml or mapred-site.xml of your distribution. -
Select the Use datanode hostname check box to allow the
Job to access datanodes via their hostnames. This actually sets the dfs.client.use.datanode.hostname
property to true. When connecting to a
S3N filesystem, you must select this check box.
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If you are accessing the Hadoop cluster running
with Kerberos security, select this check box, then, enter the Kerberos
principal name for the NameNode in the field displayed. This enables you to use
your user name to authenticate against the credentials stored in Kerberos.
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If this cluster is a MapR cluster of the version 5.0.0 or later, you can set the
MapR ticket authentication configuration in addition or as an alternative by following
the explanation in Connecting to a security-enabled MapR.Keep in mind that this configuration generates a new MapR security ticket for the username
defined in the Job in each execution. If you need to reuse an existing ticket issued for the
same username, leave both the Force MapR ticket
authentication check box and the Use Kerberos
authentication check box clear, and then MapR should be able to automatically
find that ticket on the fly.
In addition, since this component performs Map/Reduce computations, you
also need to authenticate the related services such as the Job history server and
the Resource manager or Jobtracker depending on your distribution in the
corresponding field. These principals can be found in the configuration files of
your distribution. For example, in a CDH4 distribution, the Resource manager
principal is set in the yarn-site.xml file and the Job history
principal in the mapred-site.xml file.If you need to use a Kerberos keytab file to log in, select Use a keytab to authenticate. A keytab file contains
pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. You need to enter the principal to
be used in the Principal field and the access
path to the keytab file itself in the Keytab
field. This keytab file must be stored in the machine in which your Job actually
runs, for example, on a Talend
Jobserver.Note that the user that executes a keytab-enabled Job is not necessarily
the one a principal designates but must have the right to read the keytab file being
used. For example, the user name you are using to execute a Job is user1 and the principal to be used is guest; in this
situation, ensure that user1 has the right to read the keytab
file to be used. -
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In the User name field, enter the login user
name for your distribution. If you leave it empty, the user name of the machine
hosting the Studio will be used. -
In the Temp folder field, enter the path in
HDFS to the folder where you store the temporary files generated during
Map/Reduce computations. -
Leave the default value of the Path separator in
server as it is, unless you have changed the separator used by your
Hadoop distribution’s host machine for its PATH variable or in other words, that
separator is not a colon (:). In that situation, you must change this value to the
one you are using in that host.
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Leave the Clear temporary folder check box
selected, unless you want to keep those temporary files. -
Leave the Compress intermediate map output to reduce
network traffic check box selected, so as to spend shorter time
to transfer the mapper task partitions to the multiple reducers.However, if the data transfer in the Job is negligible, it is recommended to
clear this check box to deactivate the compression step, because this
compression consumes extra CPU resources. -
If you need to use custom Hadoop properties, complete the Hadoop properties table with the property or
properties to be customized. Then at runtime, these changes will override the
corresponding default properties used by the Studio for its Hadoop
engine.For further information about the properties required by Hadoop, see Apache’s
Hadoop documentation on http://hadoop.apache.org, or
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If the HDFS transparent encryption has been enabled in your cluster, select
the Setup HDFS encryption configurations check
box and in the HDFS encryption key provider field
that is displayed, enter the location of the KMS proxy.
For further information about the HDFS transparent encryption and its KMS proxy, see Transparent Encryption in HDFS.
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You can tune the map and reduce computations by
selecting the Set memory check box to set proper memory allocations
for the computations to be performed by the Hadoop system.The memory parameters to be set are Map (in Mb),
Reduce (in Mb) and ApplicationMaster (in Mb). These fields allow you to dynamically allocate
memory to the map and the reduce computations and the ApplicationMaster of YARN.For further information about the Resource Manager, its scheduler and the
ApplicationMaster, see YARN’s documentation such as http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/.For further information about how to determine YARN and MapReduce memory configuration
settings, see the documentation of the distribution you are using, such as the following
link provided by Hortonworks: http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.0.6.0/bk_installing_manually_book/content/rpm-chap1-11.html. -
If you are using Cloudera V5.5+, you can select the Use Cloudera Navigator check box to enable the Cloudera Navigator
of your distribution to trace your Job lineage to the component level, including the
schema changes between components.
With this option activated, you need to set the following parameters:
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Username and Password: this is the credentials you use to connect to your Cloudera
Navigator. -
Cloudera Navigator URL : enter the location of the
Cloudera Navigator to be connected to. -
Cloudera Navigator Metadata URL: enter the location
of the Navigator Metadata. -
Activate the autocommit option: select this check box
to make Cloudera Navigator generate the lineage of the current Job at the end of the
execution of this Job.Since this option actually forces Cloudera Navigator to generate lineages of
all its available entities such as HDFS files and directories, Hive queries or Pig
scripts, it is not recommended for the production environment because it will slow the
Job. -
Kill the job if Cloudera Navigator fails: select this check
box to stop the execution of the Job when the connection to your Cloudera Navigator fails.Otherwise, leave it clear to allow your Job to continue to run.
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Disable SSL validation: select this check box to
make your Job to connect to Cloudera Navigator without the SSL validation
process.This feature is meant to facilitate the test of your Job but is not
recommended to be used in a production cluster.
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If you are using Hortonworks Data Platform V2.4.0 onwards and you have
installed Atlas in your cluster, you can select the Use
Atlas check box to enable Job lineage to the component level, including the
schema changes between components.
With this option activated, you need to set the following parameters:
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Atlas URL: enter the location of the Atlas to be
connected to. It is often http://name_of_your_atlas_node:port -
Die on error: select this check box to stop the Job
execution when Atlas-related issues occur, such as connection issues to Atlas.Otherwise, leave it clear to allow your Job to continue to run.
In the Username and Password fields, enter the authentication information for access to
Atlas. -
Configuring tHDFSInput
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Double-click tHDFSInput to open its
Component view. -
Click the
button next to Edit
schema to open the schema editor. -
Click the
button once to add one row and in the Column column, rename it, for example, to
record. -
Click OK to validate these changes and
accept the propagation prompted by the pop-up dialog box. -
In the Folder/File field, enter the path,
or browse to the source file you need the Job to read.If this file is not in the HDFS system to be used, you have to place it in
that HDFS, for example, using tFileInputDelimited and tHDFSOutput in a Standard
Job. For further information about these components, see tFileInputDelimited and tHDFSOutput.
Creating the MapReduce program
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Double-click tJavaMR to open its Component view.
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Under the mrKeyStruct table, click the
button once to add
one row. -
Rename that row to word_mr. This is the key part of the key/value pair to be used
by the Map/Reduce program being created. In the map method, you need to write mrKey.word_mr to represent the keys to be
outputted to a reducer. -
Under the mrValueStruct table, click the
button once to add
one row. -
Rename that row to count_mr. This is the value part of the above-mentioned
key/value pair. In the map method, you need to write mrValue.count_mr to represent the values to be outputted to a
reducer. -
Click the
button next to Edit schema to open the schema
editor. -
On the side of the schema of tJavaMR, click the
button to add two columns and name them to word_output and count_output,
respectively. This defines the structure of the data to be outputted. - In the Type column, select Integer for count_output.
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In the Map code editing field, edit the body of the map method. In this
example, the code is as follows:123456789String line = value.record;java.util.StringTokenizer tokenizer = new java.util.StringTokenizer(line);while(tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {mrKey.word_mr = tokenizer.nextToken().toUpperCase();mrValue.count_mr = 1;output.collect(mrKey, mrValue);}This method is used to split the input data into
words, change each word to upper case and create and output key/value pairs such as
(HELLO, 1) and (WORLD, 1) to the reducer.Note that at runtime, these pairs are
automatically shuffled and sorted to take the form of(key, list of values)
before being process by the reduce
method. -
In the Reduce code editing field, edit the body of the reduce method. In
this example, the code is as follows:12345678910int count = 0;while(values.hasNext()){mrValueStruct value = values.next();count += value.count_mr;}outputRow.word_output = key.word_mr;outputRow.count_output = count;output.collect(NULL, outputRow);This reduce method is used to make the sum of the
values of the list in each(key, list of
pair and map the results to the columns of the output
values)
schema.
Writing results in HDFS
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Double-click tHDFSOutput to open its
Component view. -
In the Folder field, enter the path, or
browse to the folder you want to write the results in. -
From the Type list, select the data format for the
results to be written. In this example, select Text
file. -
From the Action list, select the
operation you need to perform on the file in question. If the file already
exists, select Overwrite; otherwise, select
Create. -
Select the Merge result to single file
check box and enter the path, or browse to the file you need to write the
merged output data in. -
If you need to remove the source data of the merge, select Remove source dir. In this scenario, select
it. -
If the file for the merged data exists, select the Override target file check box to overwrite that
file.
Executing the Job
Then you can press F6 to run this Job.
Once done, view the merged result in the web console of the HDFS system being
used.

If you need to obtain more execution information of this Job, see the web console
of the Jobtracker of that HDFS system.