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Doug Cutting commented on MAPREDUCE-815: ---------------------------------------- FWIW, the file-position-as-text-map-input-key convention came from the original Google MapReduce paper, but I don't think its ever proven useful. > 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: Aaron Kimball > > 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.