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Jacob Rideout commented on MAPREDUCE-815:
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> only one of key and value will be useful and the other will be null.
Thanks Doug, that makes sense.
What about the AvroOutputFormat? Does the same condition apply? I can see
ignoring keys for the output of the reducer, but what about the output of a map?
> Add AvroInputFormat and AvroOutputFormat so that hadoop can use Avro
> Serialization
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-815
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-815
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Ravi Gummadi
> Assignee: Ravi Gummadi
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> MapReduce needs AvroInputFormat similar to other InputFormats like
> TextInputFormat to be able to use avro serialization in hadoop. Similarly
> AvroOutputFormat is needed.
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