[Hadoop-common-dev] [jira] Created: (HADOOP-6685) Change the generic serialization framework API to use serialization-specific bytes instead of Map<String,String> for configuration

Change the generic serialization framework API to use serialization-specific bytes instead of Map<String,String> for configuration
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Key: HADOOP-6685
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6685
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Owen O'Malley
Assignee: Owen O'Malley


Currently, the generic serialization framework uses Map<String,String> for the serialization specific configuration. Since this data is really internal to the specific serialization, I think we should change it to be an opaque binary blob. This will simplify the interface for defining specific serializations for different contexts (MAPREDUCE-1462). It will also move us toward having serialized objects for Mappers, Reducers, etc (MAPREDUCE-1183).