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Jay Booth commented on MAPREDUCE-1126: -------------------------------------- Well, ok, guess I'm in the minority on that instinct :) Should we still consider separating the concerns of key/value class type and key/value serialization method? They're sort of linked but sort of separate, for example in a unit testing scenario you might want the classes regardless of the serialization method. Too much setter spam then? > shuffle should use serialization to get comparator > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1126 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1126 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: task > Reporter: Doug Cutting > Assignee: Aaron Kimball > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1126.2.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.3.patch, > MAPREDUCE-1126.4.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.5.patch, MAPREDUCE-1126.6.patch, > MAPREDUCE-1126.patch > > > Currently the key comparator is defined as a Java class. Instead we should > use the Serialization API to create key comparators. This would permit, > e.g., Avro-based comparators to be used, permitting efficient sorting of > complex data types without having to write a RawComparator in Java. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.