[HADOOP-412] provide an input format that fetches a subset of sequence file records

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Assignee: Hairong Kuang
• Reporter: Hairong Kuang
• Created: 02/Aug/06 00:07
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 02/Aug/06 18:34

Description

Sometimes a map/red job only wants to work on a subset of input data for the needs of its apllication or at the debugging phase. It would be convenient if an input format transparently handles this. It should provide an API that allows a programmer to specify a filtering criteria.

Issue Links

• depends upon: HADOOP-367 Static blocks do not automatically run when a class is loaded in Java 5.0