I am using Cascading 2 to create Hadoop jobs and am trying to create a flow that starts with a single source. After a couple of functions are applied to the data I need to split the flow so that this data is used to create two separate reports (in two separate sinks).
//SOURCE
Scheme sourceScheme = new TextLine( new Fields( "line" ) );
Tap source = new Hfs( sourceScheme, input );
//REPORT1 SINK
Scheme report1SinkScheme = new TextDelimited( Fields.ALL, ",","\"" );
Tap report1Sink = new Hfs( report1SinkScheme, output1, SinkMode.REPLACE );
//REPORT2 SINK
Scheme report2SinkScheme = new TextDelimited( Fields.ALL, ",","\"" );
Tap report2Sink = new Hfs( report2SinkScheme, output2, SinkMode.REPLACE );
//INITIAL FUNCTIONS
Pipe firstPipe = new Pipe("firstPipe");
firstPipe = new Each(firstPipe, new Fields("line"), functionA);
firstPipe = new Each(firstPipe, functionB, Fields.ALL);
//REPORT1 FUNCTION
report1Pipe = new Each(firstPipe, Fields.ALL, function1, Fields.RESULTS);
//REPORT2 FUNCTION
report2Pipe = new Each(firstPipe, Fields.ALL, function2, Fields.RESULTS);
//CONNECT FLOW PARTS
FlowDef flowDef = new FlowDef()
.setName("report-flow")
.addSource(firstPipe, source)
.addSink(report1Pipe, report1Sink)
.addSink(report2Pipe, report2Sink);
new HadoopFlowConnector( properties ).connect( flowDef ).complete();
Currently this is giving me the error "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: cannot add duplicate sink: firstPipe" but even after messing around with it for a while I get a variety of other issues to do with the flow set up.
Is it possible for someone to explain how to construct a flow of this form (one source, two sinks)? Do I need to create a Cascade instead? Or do I need an intermediate sink to hold the data before I split?
Please help!
You can use the split pattern as mentioned in the Cascading documentation. Here's an example:
public static void main(String[] args) {
// source and sink
Scheme sourceScheme = new TextLine(new Fields("line"));
Tap source = new FileTap(sourceScheme, args[0]);
Fields sinkFields = new Fields("word", "count");
Scheme sinkScheme = new TextLine(sinkFields, sinkFields);
Tap sink_one = new FileTap(sinkScheme, "out-one.txt");
Tap sink_two = new FileTap(sinkScheme, "out-two.txt");
// the pipe assembly
Pipe assembly = new Pipe("wordcount");
String regex = "\\w+";
Function function = new RegexGenerator(new Fields("word"), regex);
assembly = new Each(assembly, new Fields("line"), function);
Aggregator count = new Count(new Fields("count"));
// ...split into two pipes
Pipe countOne = new Pipe("count-one", assembly);
countOne = new GroupBy(countOne, new Fields("word"));
countOne = new Every(countOne, count);
Pipe countTwo = new Pipe("count-two", assembly);
countTwo = new GroupBy(countTwo, new Fields("word"));
countTwo = new Every(countTwo, count);
// create the flow
final List<Pipe> pipes = new ArrayList<Pipe>(2);
pipes.add(countOne);
pipes.add(countTwo);
final Map<String, Tap> sinks = new HashMap<String, Tap>();
sinks.put("count-one", sink_one);
sinks.put("count-two", sink_two);
FlowConnector flowConnector = new LocalFlowConnector();
Flow flow = flowConnector.connect(source, sinks, pipes);
flow.complete();
}