madhukara phatak created HADOOP-8549: ----------------------------------------
Summary: Allow other implementation's of java.util.Map in MapWritable Key: HADOOP-8549 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8549 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: io Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha Reporter: madhukara phatak Assignee: madhukara phatak Priority: Minor Current implementation of MapWritable uses HashMap as Map implementation. But in some of the use cases we need other implementations of Map like LinkedHashMap,SortedMap.This jira changes visibility of 'instance' in MapWritable from private to protected which allows us to inject custom Map implementation through sub classing MapWritable . -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira