Pete Wyckoff wrote:
Fyi - Hadoop already has this for Java - in hive/serde/DynamicSerDe. This is exactly that and gives one the ability to read and write thrift and non-thrift data without compilation.
Is this what you mean? http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/trunk/src/contrib/hive/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/dynamic_type/ Is there any documentation for this? Doug