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Tom White commented on HADOOP-6685:
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bq. Avro is already a dependency. Thrift is already a dependency for HDFS (see
HDFS-1484).
There's a difference. Avro is used to implement an internal Hadoop format, and
Thrift, which is used in the thriftfs contrib module is also an internal
detail. So users don't care about the version numbers for these libraries.
(Also, the latter is a contrib module, so users can elect not to include it.)
The case I'm thinking about here is if a user has a Thrift file definition that
uses a feature of a later version of Thrift than is included in Hadoop then
they can't use it. If we make it a library then it becomes possible to update
the library independently.
> Change the generic serialization framework API to use serialization-specific
> bytes instead of Map<String,String> for configuration
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> Key: HADOOP-6685
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6685
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Owen O'Malley
> Fix For: 0.22.0
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> Attachments: libthrift.jar, serial.patch, serial4.patch,
> serial6.patch, SerializationAtSummit.pdf
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> Currently, the generic serialization framework uses Map<String,String> for
> the serialization specific configuration. Since this data is really internal
> to the specific serialization, I think we should change it to be an opaque
> binary blob. This will simplify the interface for defining specific
> serializations for different contexts (MAPREDUCE-1462). It will also move us
> toward having serialized objects for Mappers, Reducers, etc (MAPREDUCE-1183).
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