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Pete Wyckoff updated HADOOP-4065:
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    Status: Patch Available  (was: Open)

re-submitting for hudson.

> support for reading binary data from flat files
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4065
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4065
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: contrib/hive
>            Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
>         Attachments: FlatFileReader.java, HADOOP-4065.0.txt, 
> HADOOP-4065.1.txt, HADOOP-4065.1.txt, HADOOP-4065.2.txt, ThriftFlatFile.java
>
>
> like textinputformat - looking for a concrete implementation to read binary 
> records from a flat file (that may be compressed).
> it's assumed that hadoop can't split such a file. so the inputformat can set 
> splittable to false.
> tricky aspects are:
> - how to know what class the file contains (has to be in a configuration 
> somewhere).
> - how to determine EOF (would be nice if hadoop can determine EOF and not 
> have the deserializer throw an exception  (which is hard to distinguish from 
> a exception due to corruptions?)). this is easy for non-compressed streams - 
> for compressed streams - DecompressorStream has a useful looking 
> getAvailable() call - except the class is marked package private.

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