Iterate through array and assign each value

Question

I need a reducer to iterate through an array and assign each element (2 elements total). But is my code taking all values and simply assigning it to the key?

For example here:

     public void reduce(Text key, Iterator<Text[]> values,
     OutputCollector<Text, Text[]> output, Reporter reporter)
     throws IOException {

Is this method just dumping all my array into the bucket of values?

IS there a way to use a While loop to take each element of the Text[] and assign it to an int?

Here is my start of that:

      while (values.hasNext()){
                String AtBats = values.toString();
                int AB = Integer.parseInt(AtBats);

This would take every value and make it an AtBat, but I want the second element to be a Hit. Confused on how to accomplish this.

Answer 1

As far as I understand from your response you want to take your values and then parse them into a string.

You have everything down but I would suggest for you to inline AtBats and just have it as

int AB = Integer.parseInt(values.toString());

UPDATE: After talking through this we came down to the conclusion that passing an array and looping through it is superfluous.

Instead of passing an array with two values, then using a while loop to go through it and assign its values to two variables just pass those values down independently.