Is there a way to convert Text to an int? - type-conversion

Question

The code that is giving me trouble is converting my content in the Text(), to an int so that I could use some arithmetic. I know how to convert a string to an int, but for some reason Hadoop needs to read items in a file as a TExt(). I can't find a method to do this conversion. ANy ideas on how this could be done?
package BaseballStats;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import mrtools.CountMap;
import mrtools.NBest;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapReduceBase;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputCollector;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reporter;
public class StatReducer extends MapReduceBase
implements Reducer<Text, Text, Text, Text[]> {
private Text Hits = new Text();
private Text AtBats = new Text();
//private Text Year = new Text();
int totalAtBats = 0;
int totalHits = 0;
float average = 0;
Text [] Pair = {AtBats, Hits};
public void reduce(Text key, Iterator<Text> values,
OutputCollector<Text, Text[]> output,
Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
//Need to pull values from the Array and assign to AtBats
//THen total all at bats and hits per year (key)
//Divide hits by at Bats to get batting average
//Output batting average per year
for (Text s: Pair) {
//Do your stuff here
Pair[0] = AtBats;
Pair[1] = Hits;
}
//Get values to key to sum up and get a total per year.
while (values.hasNext()){
int AB = Integer.parseInt(AtBats);
int i = Integer.valueOf(AtBats);
totalAtBats = AB + totalAtBats;
}
}
}

Answer 1

You could first convert the Text to a string using the .toString() method and then convert the result to an int.