Hadoop method to send output to multiple directories

Question

I am using MultipleOutputs class to create 12 outputs using the following function in the driver:

public void createOutputs(){
    Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    String monthStr, pathStr;

    // Create multiple outputs for last 12 months
    // TODO make 12 configurable
    for(int i = 0; i < 12; ++i ){
        //Get month and add 1 as month is 0 based index
        int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH)+1; 
        //Add leading 0
        monthStr = month > 10 ? "" + month : "0" + month ;  
        // Generate path string in the format 2013/03/etl
        pathStr = c.get(Calendar.YEAR) + "" + monthStr + "etl";
        // Add the named output
        MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(config, pathStr );  
        // Move to previous month
        c.add(Calendar.MONTH, -1); 
    }
}

In the reducer, I added a cleanup function to move the generated output to appropriate directories.

protected void cleanup(Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        // Custom function to recursively process data
        moveFiles (FileSystem.get(new Configuration()), new Path("/MyOutputPath"));
}

Answer 1

setup:

MultipleOutputs.addNamedOutput(job, "Output", TextOutputFormat.class, Text.class, Text.class);

setup of reducer:

mout = new MultipleOutputs<Text, Text>(context);

calling mout in reducer:

String key; //set to whatever output key will be
String value; //set to whatever output value will be
String outputFileName; //set to absolute path to file where this should write

mout.write("Output",new Text(key),new Text(value),outputFileName);

you can have a piece of code determine the directory while coding. For example say you want to specify directory by month and year:

int year;//extract year from data
int month;//extract month from data
String baseFileName; //parent directory to all outputs from this job
String outputFileName = baseFileName + "/" + year + "/" + month;

mout.write("Output",new Text(key),new Text(value),outputFileName);

Hope this helps.