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[jira] [Created] (AVRO-1243) Support all compression codecs

Ted Malaska created AVRO-1243:
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             Summary: Support all compression codecs
                 Key: AVRO-1243
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1243
             Project: Avro
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: java
    Affects Versions: 1.7.3
            Reporter: Ted Malaska
            Priority: Minor


I may be reading this wrong but at this time org.apache.avro.file.CodecFactory only supports null, deflate, and snappy compression codecs.

I would like to change the fromString method to use Class.forName(codec).newInstance(); after the codec was not found in the REGISTERED map but before the AvroRuntimeException is thrown. 

Here are some of my supporting thoughts
1. This should not interduce much slowness because it will only be called initialize.
2. This will allow for support for GZip, BZip2, and LZO with out adding more dependances to the maven pom file.
3. This will allow for a future Jiri I would like to do that would allow AvroOutputFormat to be able to use the following configs: mapred.output.compress and mapred.output.compression.codec




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