Re: Redundant (?) lengths in SequenceFile

[Eric Baldeschwieler]

Can we turn this around and assume that writables will be given a  
stream and a length when they read?  That would also let us remove  
redundant info...

On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Owen O'Malley wrote:

On Jun 19, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Paul Sutter wrote:

How can I define a comparator that can compare raw binary data?  
(our keys
are raw binary data)

Paul,
   Look at what I did for BytesWritable (lines 147-165). You need  
to define a Comparator class and register it with WritableComparable.

-- Owen