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Jacob Rideout commented on MAPREDUCE-815: ----------------------------------------- What is the current line of thought on how keys and values will interact with the schema for an avro file? Is the intention that there would be a master schema that encapsulated the key/values similar to: {code} { "type" : "record", "fields" : [ { "name" : "KEY", "type" : "record" }, { "name" : "VALUE", "type" : "record" } ]} {code} What about files created without this "master" schema; would the key return a null object? Byte offset in a schema of type "long" ? > Add AvroInputFormat and AvroOutputFormat so that hadoop can use Avro > Serialization > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-815 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-815 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Ravi Gummadi > Assignee: Ravi Gummadi > > MapReduce needs AvroInputFormat similar to other InputFormats like > TextInputFormat to be able to use avro serialization in hadoop. Similarly > AvroOutputFormat is needed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.