Benjamin Reed wrote:
Split will write the hosts first, so in the JobTracker, when you get the byte array representing the Split, any fields from the sub class will follow the Split serialized bytes. The JobTracker can skip the Type in the bytes representing the serialized Split and then deserialize just a Split (ignoring the rest).
That could work, but it would be hard to pass these direclty over either RPC or via a SequenceFile, no? We'd have to write a custom container for the array of Splits. The container could then be passed as a whole over RPC or placed in a SequenceFile. That could become a little awkward.
Doug
