[HADOOP-2469] WritableUtils.clone should take Configuration rather than JobConf

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: io
• Assignee: Michael Stack
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 19/Dec/07 23:32
• Updated: 08/Feb/08 23:38
• Resolved: 18/Jan/08 00:53

Description

I'd like to use WritableUtils.clone but I'm not in a mapred context so don't have a JobConf to hand. I do have a Configuration.

Looking inside the clone implementation, it doesn't need JobConf; a Configuration will do.