I have created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-763 to track this.
It makes sense for users to be able to use configure() and close(). On 2/9/11 1:03 PM, "cwilkes" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Currently the AvroMapper and AvroReducer do not have the configure(..) and >close() methods from typical MapReduce jobs. Can they be added to the >code? > >Normally I would just extend org.apache.avro.mapred.HadoopReducer so that >those methods are called on the delegate classes. However HadoopReducer >is >package protected. Is there a reason for that?
