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Amareshwari Sriramadasu commented on HADOOP-1722:
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Streaming documentation in forrest should be updated with this feature.

> Make streaming to handle non-utf8 byte array
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1722
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1722
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Runping Qi
>            Assignee: Klaas Bosteels
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-1722-branch-0.18.patch, 
> HADOOP-1722-branch-0.19.patch, HADOOP-1722-v2.patch, HADOOP-1722-v3.patch, 
> HADOOP-1722-v4.patch, HADOOP-1722-v4.patch, HADOOP-1722-v5.patch, 
> HADOOP-1722-v6.patch, HADOOP-1722.patch
>
>
> Right now, the streaming framework expects the output sof the steam process 
> (mapper or reducer) are line 
> oriented UTF-8 text. This limit makes it impossible to use those programs 
> whose outputs may be non-UTF-8
>  (international encoding, or maybe even binary data). Streaming can overcome 
> this limit by introducing a simple
> encoding protocol. For example, it can allow the mapper/reducer to hexencode 
> its keys/values, 
> the framework decodes them in the Java side.
> This way, as long as the mapper/reducer executables follow this encoding 
> protocol, 
> they can output arabitary bytearray and the streaming framework can handle 
> them.

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