[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-7024) TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob unnecessarily limits the types of outputKeyClass and outputValueClass

["Dave Beech (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dave Beech updated HBASE-7024:
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    Attachment: HBASE-7024.patch

OK, thanks. Can I propose this patch - it simply removes the "extends Writable/WritableConfigurable" bit from the outputKeyClass and outputValueClass parameters
                
> TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob unnecessarily limits the types of outputKeyClass and outputValueClass
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>                 Key: HBASE-7024
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7024
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mapreduce
>            Reporter: Dave Beech
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HBASE-7024.patch
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> The various initTableMapperJob methods in TableMapReduceUtil take outputKeyClass and outputValueClass parameters which need to extend WritableComparable and Writable respectively. 
> Because of this, it is not convenient to use an alternative serialization like Avro. (I wanted to set these parameters to AvroKey and AvroValue). 
> The methods in the MapReduce API to set map output key and value types do not impose this restriction, so is there a reason to do it here?

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