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Ted Malaska commented on AVRO-1243:
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Interesting I'm trying to find a good maven dependency for BZip2 and I found a
couple options but none prefect. I would love feedback on which would be the
right fit for Avro.
1. In hadoop they re-implement BZip2 in the package
org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.bzip2. So one option is to re-implement it again
in avro.
2. There are implementation for org.apache.tools.bzip2 that are included in
other maven repositories like the org.apache.ant.
3. There is an implementation of bzip2 in maven repository
groupId:org.apache.commons artifactId:commons-compress.
As for right now I'm going to try a first cut with option 3, because it means
we don't have to re-implement BZip2 in Avro and because adding a dependency on
ant just seems odd.
The good thing is the new implementation is a lot less complex then my first
reflection version so which ever BZip2 direction we go it will be easy to
switch it if needed.
> Avro support for all compression codecs
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>
> Key: AVRO-1243
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1243
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.3
> Reporter: Ted Malaska
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: AVRO-1243.not-ready.1.patch, AVRO-1243.not-ready.patch
>
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> I may be reading this wrong but at this time
> org.apache.avro.file.CodecFactory only supports null, deflate, and snappy
> compression codecs.
> I would like to change the fromString method to use
> Class.forName(codec).newInstance(); after the codec was not found in the
> REGISTERED map but before the AvroRuntimeException is thrown.
> Here are some of my supporting thoughts
> 1. This should not interduce much slowness because it will only be called
> initialize.
> 2. This will allow for support for GZip, BZip2, and LZO with out adding more
> dependances to the maven pom file.
> 3. This will allow for a future Jiri I would like to do that would allow
> AvroOutputFormat to be able to use the following configs:
> mapred.output.compress and mapred.output.compression.codec
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