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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-6165:
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> I haven't added the fallback capability discussed, but it shouldn't be too 
> hard to add. 

Since AvroGenericSerialization is added last, the fallback could simply be to 
change its accept method to accept anything that has AVRO_SCHEMA_KEY defined, 
no?

One other thing: we should probably adopt a naming convention for metadata 
keys.  Should they be Java-package-like strings, e.g., 
org.apache.hadoop.io.serialization.class, or HTTP/SMTP header-like things, 
e.g., Serialization-Class?

> Add metadata to Serializations
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6165
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: contrib/serialization
>            Reporter: Tom White
>            Assignee: Tom White
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-6165-v2.patch, HADOOP-6165-v3.patch, 
> HADOOP-6165.patch
>
>
> The Serialization framework only allows a class to be passed as metadata. 
> This assumes there is a one-to-one mapping between types and Serializations, 
> which is overly restrictive. By permitting applications to pass arbitrary 
> metadata to Serializations, they can get more control over which 
> Serialization is used, and would also allow, for example, one to pass an Avro 
> schema to an Avro Serialization.

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