[HADOOP-6150] Need to be able to instantiate a comparator instance from a comparator string without creating a TFile.Reader object

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0, 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.0, 0.21.0
• Component/s: io
• Assignee: Hong Tang
• Reporter: Hong Tang
• Created: 15/Jul/09 00:32
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:39
• Resolved: 31/Jul/09 02:08

Description

Occasionally, we want have the same instance of comparator object represented by the TFile comparator string. We should be able to do that without requiring to first open up a tfile that was previously written use the same comparator.