[TEZ-2006] Task communication plane needs to be pluggable

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0-alpha
• Assignee: Siddharth Seth
• Reporter: Siddharth Seth
• Created: 28/Jan/15 00:31
• Updated: 01/Sep/15 21:31
• Resolved: 12/Feb/15 19:26

Description

To support communication with an external executor with a custom 'TaskSpec'. The logic within Tez (TaskAttemptListener) remains the same - but a translation layer may be required to handle the actual communication and translation into something Tez understands.