Hi, I've built some SequenceFiles using a custom WritableComparable. I also decided to reorganize package structure and ended up renaming the whole thing. Since the key and value classes are embedded in the file i cannot read them because it either doesn't exist or cannot be cast in case the same classname lives in another package name.
I looked in the Job and SequenceFile and InputFormat API's but i cannot find something to tell the reader that the class is somewhere else now. Renaming using a hexeditor doesn't work as well because the package name's length is different now, leading to a lot of bad exceptions such as Unknown codec complaints. I can still load the file by keeping the original WritableComparable and write back to disk using the new WritableComparable but that forces me to write some temporary code. How can i tell the reader to use the new (but identical) class for WritableComparable when loading a SequenceFile? Or do i have to write some conversion code? Thanks
