[jira] Assigned: (HADOOP-1722) Make streaming to handle non-utf8 byte array

["Klaas Bosteels (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Klaas Bosteels reassigned HADOOP-1722:
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    Assignee: Klaas Bosteels  (was: Christopher Zimmerman)

> Make streaming to handle non-utf8 byte array
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1722
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1722
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/streaming
>            Reporter: Runping Qi
>            Assignee: Klaas Bosteels
>         Attachments: HADOOP-1722-v2.patch, HADOOP-1722-v3.patch, HADOOP-1722.patch
>
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> Right now, the streaming framework expects the output sof the steam process (mapper or reducer) are line 
> oriented UTF-8 text. This limit makes it impossible to use those programs whose outputs may be non-UTF-8
>  (international encoding, or maybe even binary data). Streaming can overcome this limit by introducing a simple
> encoding protocol. For example, it can allow the mapper/reducer to hexencode its keys/values, 
> the framework decodes them in the Java side.
> This way, as long as the mapper/reducer executables follow this encoding protocol, 
> they can output arabitary bytearray and the streaming framework can handle them.

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