Hi, As Ted pointed out, the end goal is to support a lucene-like document > structure, but yes, I believe the AvroInput/Output formats should > support arbitrary 'specific' avro types currently and should be able > to support reflection and generic serialization in the future. Keep in > mind that this is all very early in the dev/testing process of this > stuff, so YMMV. >
I will give it a try at some point with my sample type. Right now, I use avro when running the code locally and SequenceFiles/Writables on the grid. I'd rather have only one ;-) Is the structure of the files you create on hdfs the same as that of the files created using the routines shipped with Avro? E.g. could I create files on the grid, download them and open them locally? Thanks, Markus
