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Tom White updated HADOOP-1231:
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Attachment: HADOOP-1231.patch
This patch (HADOOP-1231.patch) makes the Map Reduce public API generic. As
mentioned above, this does not mean that user programs are type checked at
compile time, but it does mean they are explicit about the types they use and
casts are unnecessary.
There is a non-backwards compatible change to RecordReader#record. The old
signature was:
{code}
boolean next(Writable key, Writable value) throws IOException;
{code}
the new signature is (the generic equivalent of)
{code}
boolean next(WritableComparable key, Writable value) throws IOException;
{code}
Apart from this change the patch is backwards compatible (binary and source).
For example, this means an older version of the word count example can be run
against the new patch.
> Add generics to Mapper and Reducer interfaces
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-1231
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1231
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Tom White
> Attachments: HADOOP-1231.patch, HADOOP-1231.patch, MapReduceTypes.html
>
>
> By making the input and output types of the Mapper and Reducers generic, we
> can get the information from the classes and not require the user to set them
> in the configuration.
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