[MAHOUT-510] Standardize serialization mechanisms

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Sean R. Owen
• Reporter: Sean R. Owen
• Created: 22/Sep/10 14:49
• Updated: 21/May/11 03:19
• Resolved: 05/Apr/11 21:13

Description

At the moment this is tracking a broader concern: to standardize as much as possible how we approach serialization. The long-term goal is notionally to use the following "encodings" as the input/output of Mahout stuff, and by extension, probably internally too.

• Text
• Vector Writable
• (maybe Avro)

not

• Serializable
• GSON / JSON