Cool, thanks for the answer. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Owen O'Malley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that the Java serialization works for SequenceFile, but > doesn't work with RecordReader. The problem is that Java serialization > always returns a new object and the RecordReader interface looks like: > > boolean next(Object key, Object value) throws IOException; > > where the outer context needs to pass in the object. Note that we are > working on fixing it, but it will require HADOOP-1230, which creates a > completely new API. > > -- Owen >
