> David, can you give some sort of feel for the usages of the getBytes() > calls? Since most of the API deals with things in terms of Text and byte[] > (Key and Value decomposed), are most of the usages configuration/user-input > based as your initial snippet from InputFormatBase showed?
I will post a list of the files that I have changed before I commit. I will post the file list as a response in this thread.
