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eric baldeschwieler commented on HADOOP-1986: --------------------------------------------- > Interesting point - it sounds like such a design might be achieved by moving > the serialization stuff into its own layer above core Map Reduce. EXACTLY! I've created HADOOP-2429 to discuss this point. > Add support for a general serialization mechanism for Map Reduce > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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: hadoop-serializer-v2.tar.gz, SerializableWritable.java, > serializer-v1.patch, serializer-v2.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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.