MapReduce中重写WritableComparator的compare不生效的原因

最近在学习MapReduce时，找了一些小案例练习，案例中需要map输出和分组时都实现自定义比较规则，于是继承了WritableComparator类，并重写了compare方法，但发现自定义的比较规则始终没有生效，最终发现是重写的方法错了。

注意WritableComparator有多种compare方法，如下：

  @Override
  public int compare(byte[] b1, int s1, int l1, byte[] b2, int s2, int l2) {
    try {
      buffer.reset(b1, s1, l1);                   // parse key1
      key1.readFields(buffer);
      
      buffer.reset(b2, s2, l2);                   // parse key2
      key2.readFields(buffer);
      
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    
    return compare(key1, key2);                   // compare them
  }

  /** Compare two WritableComparables.
   *
   * <p> The default implementation uses the natural ordering, calling {@link
   * Comparable#compareTo(Object)}. */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public int compare(WritableComparable a, WritableComparable b) {
    return a.compareTo(b);
  }

  @Override
  public int compare(Object a, Object b) {
    return compare((WritableComparable)a, (WritableComparable)b);
  }

一开始没注意重写的方法入参是Object的，导致排序始终不生效

public int compare(Object a, Object b) 

compare方法最终也是调用compare(WritableComparable a, WritableComparable b) 实现排序，所以应该要重写方法入参是WritableComparable 的方法

public int compare(WritableComparable a, WritableComparable b)