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Tom White commented on MAPREDUCE-1126:
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I'm working on a modified patch which hopefully will find a middle ground. It 
avoids any change to the existing API (so existing jobs will run without change 
or deprecation warnings), and it permits generic Avro types in the shuffle.

That said, I'm also interested in seeing your prototype Owen.

> 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.

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