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Jim Kellerman commented on HADOOP-1727:
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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 01:14 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Author: jimk
> > Date: Thu Aug 16 15:51:03 2007
> > New Revision: 566878
> >
> > Changes:
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> > New class MapWritable replaces KeyedData and KeyedDataArrayWritable
>
> There is already a class with this name in Nutch
> (org.apache.nutch.crawl.MapWritable), which serves basically the same
> purpose, only it's able to hold instances of different classes (both
> keys and values), and (de)serialize them efficiently. Is there any
> chance to merge these two implementations?
Absolutely. When we developed the version for HBase we were unaware of the
Nutch class. When I asked Doug Cutting if he thought our MapWritable would be
useful in Hadoop, he pointed me to the Nutch class and also suggested using
RefllectionUtils, so that, indeed, is the plan.
> Make ...hbase.io.MapWritable more generic so that it can be included in
> ...hadoop.io
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> Key: HADOOP-1727
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1727
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Reporter: Jim Kellerman
> Assignee: Jim Kellerman
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.15.0
>
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> The class org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.MapWritable could be made more generic
> through the use of ReflectionUtils so that it could support more Map key and
> value classes. Currently it supports Map<WritableComparable, Writable> only.
> When more generalized, submit for consideration to be included in
> org.apache.hadoop.io
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