Iterate through ArrayWritable - NoSuchMethodException

A Writable for arrays containing instances of a class. The elements of this writable must all be instances of the same class. If this writable will be the input for a Reducer, you will need to create a subclass that sets the value to be of the proper type. For example: public class IntArrayWritable extends ArrayWritable { public IntArrayWritable() { super(IntWritable.class); } }

Here is from the docs of ArrayWritable. Generally, Writable should have an constructor with no parameter.

I just modified your code to:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.ArrayWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileOutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapReduceBase;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Mapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputCollector;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reporter;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextOutputFormat;

public class TempClass {

    public static class TextArrayWritable extends ArrayWritable {
        public TextArrayWritable() {
            super(Text.class);
        }

        public TextArrayWritable(String[] strings) {
            super(Text.class);
            Text[] texts = new Text[strings.length];
            for (int i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
                texts[i] = new Text(strings[i]);
            }
            set(texts);
        }
    }

    public static class MapClass extends MapReduceBase implements
            Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, ArrayWritable> {
        public void map(LongWritable key, Text value,
                OutputCollector<Text, ArrayWritable> output, Reporter reporter)
                throws IOException {

            String[] arr_str = new String[] {
                    "a", "b", "c" };
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
                output.collect(new Text("my_key"), new TextArrayWritable(
                        arr_str));
        }
    }

    public static class Reduce extends MapReduceBase implements
            Reducer<Text, TextArrayWritable, Text, TextArrayWritable> {

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

            TextArrayWritable tmp;

            while (values.hasNext()) {
                tmp = values.next();
                output.collect(key, tmp);
            }
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Configuration conf = new Configuration();

        JobConf job = new JobConf(conf, TempClass.class);

        job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
        job.setOutputValueClass(TextArrayWritable.class);
        job.setOutputFormat(TextOutputFormat.class);
        job.setInputFormat(TextInputFormat.class);

        job.setMapperClass(MapClass.class);
        job.setReducerClass(Reduce.class);

        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, new Path(args[0]));
        FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));

        job.setJobName("TempClass");

        JobClient.runJob(job);
    }
}