[AVRO-577] Add input format for plain text files

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 14/Jun/10 20:39
• Updated: 08/Sep/10 21:07
• Resolved: 15/Jun/10 21:51

Description

Avro doesn't support MapReduce over plain text files very well. Hadoop's TextInputFormat doesn't work directly with AvroMapper, and the alternative of using AvroWrapper objects is not very elegant. It would be nice to have an input format that returns lines as Utf8 keys to work with AvroMapper.