How to direct Reducer to write avro objects to avro sequence file?

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:55:07 -0800 

Hi,
(using hadoop 0.20.2 and avro 1.4.1)

I have defined a simple avro object 'AvroObj' (a record of strings),
compiled the schema and 
setup a simple MR job that takes as input <Object, Text> and emits
<Text, IntWritable>
and reducer that takes said <Text, IntWritable> and ...
I would like to achieve is - have reducer emit <NullWritable, AvroObj>
pairs into an avro sequence file;

so the next mr job will open that avro file and read-in avro objects, not
text lines, out of it;

I have looked through the (H ed.2) book and few online samples but can't
figure out how to do it;
some online sources mention job config settings like:
        job.setOutputFormatClass(AvroOutputFormat.class);        
        AvroOutputFormat.setCompressOutput(conf, false);

But this doesn't compile - setCompressOutput asks for deprecated JobConf
object, and
"setOutputFormatClass" gives error about its param - param not applicable to
AvroOutputFormat.class;

Could someone enlighten me how to have reducer write to avro sequence file ?

Cheers;

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