## org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.db
Class TextSplitter

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.db.BigDecimalSplitter
          org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.db.TextSplitter

All Implemented Interfaces:
  DBSplitter

    @InterfaceAudience.Public
    @InterfaceStability.Evolving
    public class TextSplitter

extends BigDecimalSplitter

Implement DBSplitter over text strings.

Constructor Summary
`TextSplitter()`

Method Summary
`List<InputSplit>` `split(Configuration conf, ResultSet results, String colName)` This method needs to determine the splits between two user-provided strings.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.db.BigDecimalSplitter
`tryDivide`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### TextSplitter

    public TextSplitter()

Method Detail

### split

    public List<InputSplit> split(Configuration conf,
                                  ResultSet results,
                                  String colName)
                           throws SQLException

  This method needs to determine the splits between two user-provided strings. In the case where the user's strings are 'A' and 'Z', this is not hard; we could create two splits from ['A', 'M') and ['M', 'Z'], 26 splits for strings beginning with each letter, etc. If a user has provided us with the strings "Ham" and "Haze", however, we need to create splits that differ in the third letter. The algorithm used is as follows: Since there are 2**16 unicode characters, we interpret characters as digits in base 65536. Given a string 's' containing characters s_0, s_1 .. s_n, we interpret the string as the number: 0.s_0 s_1 s_2.. s_n in base 65536. Having mapped the low and high strings into floating-point values, we then use the BigDecimalSplitter to establish the even split points, then map the resulting floating point values back into strings.

  Specified by:
    `split` in interface `DBSplitter`
  Overrides:
    `split` in class `BigDecimalSplitter`
  Throws:
    `SQLException`

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