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Hong Tang commented on HADOOP-6685: ----------------------------------- bq. Could you please explain the motivation for extending these file formats to support all of these serialization systems? Being able to support so many different serialization framework in itself is a good exercise to ensure that the API is carefully designed to be future proof. > Change the generic serialization framework API to use serialization-specific > bytes instead of Map<String,String> for configuration > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6685 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6685 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Assignee: Owen O'Malley > Attachments: serial.patch > > > Currently, the generic serialization framework uses Map<String,String> for > the serialization specific configuration. Since this data is really internal > to the specific serialization, I think we should change it to be an opaque > binary blob. This will simplify the interface for defining specific > serializations for different contexts (MAPREDUCE-1462). It will also move us > toward having serialized objects for Mappers, Reducers, etc (MAPREDUCE-1183). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.