Writable is the recommended interface to work with. Writable implementations reuse instances which serves large scale data processing better than JavaSerialization.
Cheers On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Ananth Sarathy <ananth.t.sara...@gmail.com>wrote: > My team and I were working with sequence files and were using the > LuceneDocumentWrapper. But when I try to get the valcall, i get a no such > method exception from the ReflectionUtils, which is caused because it's > trying to call a default constructor which doesn't exist for that class. > > So my question is whether there is documentation or limitations to the > type > of objects that can be used with a sequencefile other than the Writable > interface? I want to know if maybe I am trying to read from the file in the > wrong way. > Ananth T Sarathy >