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Radim Kolar commented on MAPREDUCE-4851:
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Actually it can be made backward compatible. Accept old style comparators and
do runtime check if they are instance of new class and then invoke lifecycle
methods.
> add lifecycle to Comparators
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-4851
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4851
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Radim Kolar
> Labels: mrv2
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> current mapreduce api is using RawComparator interface in:
> setGroupingComparatorClass
> setSortComparatorClass
> This interface has no lifecycle support. I propose to change that methods to
> take argument new class implements RawComparator with setup and cleanup
> methods.
> This will leave existing code with RawComparator alone, Providing some
> backward compatibility.
> new class:
> class SortComparator implements RawComparator
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