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Pete Wyckoff updated HADOOP-4065: --------------------------------- 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.