On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Dave Beech <[email protected]> wrote: > What this means is, if you want to use a grouping comparator with the "new" > mapreduce API and Avro, you absolutely must provide an implementation of > RawComparator, or do the deserialization and delegating method call to > compare(x,y) yourself. This really isn't obvious and I haven't found it to > be documented anywhere.
Sounds like we should at least add some documentation and probably also make this simpler. Perhaps we could provide a subclass of AvroKeyComparator that does the deserialization and delegates to compare(x,y)? Then folks can subclass this and override compare(x,y)? Doug
