[HADOOP-48] add user data to task reports

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 22/Feb/06 07:22
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:51
• Resolved: 13/Mar/07 03:53

Description

The Reporter interface should permit tasks to set user-data for a task, either as a String or, better-yet, as a Writable. This should be returned with each TaskReport. This would facilitate programmatic instrumentation of tasks.