Miki, Have you looked at AvroAsTextInputFormat?
http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/api/java/org/apache/avro/mapred/AvroAsTextInputFormat.html Also, release 1.5.2 will include AvroTextOutputFormat: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-830 Are these perhaps what you're looking for? Doug On 06/02/2011 11:30 PM, Miki Tebeka wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to use hadoop streaming with Avro files. > My plan is to write an inputformat class that emits json records, one > per line. This way the streaming application can read one record per > line. > (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.15.2/streaming.html#Specifying+Other+Plugins+for+Jobs) > > I couldn't find any documentation/help about writing inputformat > classes. Can someone point me to the right direction? > > Thanks, > -- > Miki
