[MAPREDUCE-2602] Allow setting of end-of-record delimiter for TextInputFormat (for the old API)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ahmed Radwan
• Reporter: Ahmed Radwan
• Created: 17/Jun/11 02:14
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:48
• Resolved: 25/Jul/11 21:42

Description

Since there are users who are still using the old MR API, it will be useful to modify the org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LineRecordReader and org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat to be able to use custom (user-specified) end-of-record delimiters. This will make use of the LineReader improvement introduced in HADOOP-7096 that enables the LineReader to break lines at user-specified delimiters.

Note: MAPREDUCE-2254 already added this improvement to the new API (but not the old API).