You may also propose to extend the existing SFOP to allow this on JIRA or the dev mailing list :)
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net> wrote: > On 08/07/2010 02:06 AM, Harsh J wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM, David Rosenstrauch<dar...@darose.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm using a SequenceFileOutputFormat. But I'd like to be able to set >>> some >>> SequenceFile.Metadata on the SequenceFile.Writer that's getting created. >>> Doesn't look like there's any easy way to do that, other than overriding >>> the SequenceFileOutputFormat.getRecordWriter() method. >>> >>> Am I overlooking anything? >> >> Doesn't seem like you are on a wrong path, so don't worry and go ahead! >> >> P.s.: A reply by Tom White to a similar question: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/common-u...@hadoop.apache.org/msg02218.html > > Thanks for the link! > > Sounds like I'll have to sub-class, then. A bit of a kludge, IMO, but I can > live with it. That's life on the bleeding edge! > > Thanks again, > > DR > -- Harsh J www.harshj.com
