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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-1986:
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Doug,
   The boolean accept method would be fine. Your proposal would let you split 
apart serializers from deserializers, which doesn't seem very useful to me. If 
I use serializer X, I pretty much always want to use deserializer X too. I 
don't see the value is saying for type X use serializer Y and deserializer Z.

> Add support for a general serialization mechanism for Map Reduce
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1986
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1986
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Tom White
>            Assignee: Tom White
>             Fix For: 0.16.0
>
>         Attachments: SerializableWritable.java, serializer-v1.patch
>
>
> Currently Map Reduce programs have to use WritableComparable-Writable 
> key-value pairs. While it's possible to write Writable wrappers for other 
> serialization frameworks (such as Thrift), this is not very convenient: it 
> would be nicer to be able to use arbitrary types directly, without explicit 
> wrapping and unwrapping.

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