What is the purpose of context object?
Answer / Mrigendra Singh
The Hadoop MapReduce Context object is used by mapper and reducer classes to access various information about the job, such as the configuration parameters, output path, progress reporter, etc. It provides a set of methods that help in writing data to the output, setting configuration properties, getting input splits, and communicating with the framework.
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