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Alex Loddengaard commented on HADOOP-3788: ------------------------------------------ Chris, while I stagger with Protocol Buffers, you should look in to Thrift, which is described in HADOOP-3787. Similarly, you should learn about Hadoop Streaming ([http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopStreaming]), which will let you run any executable (C++, Python, etc). > Add serialization for Protocol Buffers > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-3788 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3788 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Wish > Components: contrib/serialization, examples, mapred > Reporter: Tom White > Assignee: Alex Loddengaard > Fix For: 0.20.0 > > Attachments: hadoop-3788-v1.patch, hadoop-3788-v2.patch, > protobuf-java-2.0.1.jar > > > Protocol Buffers (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/) are a way of encoding > data in a compact binary format. This issue is to write a > ProtocolBuffersSerialization to support using Protocol Buffers types in > MapReduce programs, including an example program. This should probably go > into contrib. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.