[AVRO-763] Java: Mapred API: allow users to utilize configure() and close() methods on AvroMapper and AvroReducer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.1
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Marlon Pierce
• Reporter: Scott Carey
• Created: 09/Feb/11 22:08
• Updated: 06/May/11 19:14
• Resolved: 20/Apr/11 19:55

Description

From avro-user mailing list:

Currently the AvroMapper and AvroReducer do not have the configure(..) and
close() methods from typical MapReduce jobs. Can they be added to the code?

Normally I would just extend org.apache.avro.mapred.HadoopReducer so that
those methods are called on the delegate classes. However HadoopReducer is
package protected. Is there a reason for that?