Hadoop... Text.toString() conversion problems

Question

I'm writing a simple program for enumerating triangles in directed graphs for my project. First, for each input arc (eg ab, bc, ca, note: a tab symbol serves as a delimiter) I want my map function output the following pairs ([a, to_b], [b, from_a], [a_b, -1]):

 public void map(LongWritable key, Text value,
                OutputCollector<Text, Text> output,
                Reporter reporter) throws IOException {

  String line = value.toString();
  String [] tokens = line.split("    ");

  output.collect(new Text(tokens[0]), new Text("to_"+tokens[1]));
  output.collect(new Text(tokens[1]), new Text("from_"+tokens[0]));
  output.collect(new Text(tokens[0]+"_"+tokens[1]), new Text("-1"));

}

Now my reduce function is supposed to cross join all pairs that have both to_'s and from_'s and to simply emit any other pairs whose keys contain "_".

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

  String key_s = key.toString();

  if (key_s.indexOf("_")>0)
      output.collect(key, new Text("completed"));

   else {

           HashMap <String, ArrayList<String>> lists = new HashMap <String, ArrayList<String>> ();    

          while (values.hasNext()) {

              String line = values.next().toString();

              String[] tokens = line.split("_");
              if (!lists.containsKey(tokens[0])) {
                   lists.put(tokens[0], new ArrayList<String>());
              }
           lists.get(tokens[0]).add(tokens[1]);     
          }

          for (String t : lists.get("to"))
               for (String f : lists.get("from"))
                  output.collect(new Text(t+"_"+f), key); 


  }

} 

And this is where the most exciting stuff happens. tokens[1] yields an ArrayOutOfBounds exception. If you scroll up, you can see that by this point the iterator should give values like "to_a", "from_b", "to_b", etc... when I just output these values, everything looks ok and I have "to_a", "from_b". But split() don't work at all, moreover line.length() is always 1 and indexOf(" ") returns -1! The very same indexOf WORKS PERFECTLY for keys... where we have pairs whose keys contain " " and look like "a_b", "b_c"

I'm really puzzled with all this. MapReduce is supposed to save lives making everything simple. Instead I spent several hours to just localize this.

Answer 1

NOt sure if that's the problem by try changing this:

  String [] tokens = line.split("    ");

to this:

  String [] tokens = line.split("\t");