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Todd Lipcon commented on HADOOP-7096:
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+1 then. I plan on committing this in the next day or two unless there are any
objections.
> Allow setting of end-of-record delimiter for TextInputFormat
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>
> Key: HADOOP-7096
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7096
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ahmed Radwan
> Attachments: HADOOP-7096.patch, HADOOP-7096_r2.patch,
> HADOOP-7096_r3.patch, hadoop-7096_r4.patch
>
>
> The patch for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2254 required
> minor changes to the LineReader class to allow extensions (see attached
> 2.patch). Description copied below:
> It will be useful to allow setting the end-of-record delimiter for
> TextInputFormat. The current implementation hardcodes '\n', '\r' or '\r\n' as
> the only possible record delimiters. This is a problem if users have embedded
> newlines in their data fields (which is pretty common). This is also a
> problem for other tools using this TextInputFormat (See for example:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-836 and
> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/SQOOP-136).
> I have wrote a patch to address this issue. This patch allows users to
> specify any custom end-of-record delimiter using a new added configuration
> property. For backward compatibility, if this new configuration property is
> absent, then the same exact previous delimiters are used (i.e., '\n', '\r' or
> '\r\n').
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