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Pete Wyckoff commented on HADOOP-4065:
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bq. The TFile is also supposed to be readable/writable in other languages with
the spec being clear enough on how to read and write Tfiles. We intend to
provide just java implementation of Tfiles though.
Fair enough. If we had TFile in a number of languages it could probably be put
in as a thrift transport. TRS is much simpler though and thus much easier to
write in other languages.
> support for reading binary data from flat files
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> Key: HADOOP-4065
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4065
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
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> like textinputformat - looking for a concrete implementation to read binary
> records from a flat file (that may be compressed).
> it's assumed that hadoop can't split such a file. so the inputformat can set
> splittable to false.
> tricky aspects are:
> - how to know what class the file contains (has to be in a configuration
> somewhere).
> - how to determine EOF (would be nice if hadoop can determine EOF and not
> have the deserializer throw an exception (which is hard to distinguish from
> a exception due to corruptions?)). this is easy for non-compressed streams -
> for compressed streams - DecompressorStream has a useful looking
> getAvailable() call - except the class is marked package private.
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