Re: Using JavaSerialzation and SequenceFileInput

[Owen O'Malley]

The problem is that the Java serialization works for SequenceFile, but  
doesn't work with RecordReader. The problem is that Java serialization  
always returns a new object and the RecordReader interface looks like:

boolean next(Object key, Object value) throws IOException;
where the outer context needs to pass in the object. Note that we are  
working on fixing it, but it will require HADOOP-1230, which creates a  
completely new API.

-- Owen