cool.  Want to be walked through the "man page" of this.

Forward to me? Or be prepared to demo in the review?

On Aug 1, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Hairong Kuang (JIRA) wrote:

>      [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-412?page=all ]
>
> Hairong Kuang updated HADOOP-412:
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>     Attachment: filter.patch
>
> This patch provides class SequenceFileInputFilter that can feed a  
> subset of sequence file records to map tasks.  It provides a class  
> method setFilter that defines a flltering criteria.
>
> The patch provides three Filters: RegexFilter, PercentFilter, and  
> MD5Filter. But a programmer may define its own filter. Any user- 
> defined filter should either implements interface Filter or extend  
> from FilterBase.
>
> A junit test is also included.
>
>> provide an input format that fetches a subset of sequence file  
>> records
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>>                 Key: HADOOP-412
>>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-412
>>             Project: Hadoop
>>          Issue Type: New Feature
>>          Components: mapred
>>    Affects Versions: 0.4.0
>>            Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>>         Assigned To: Hairong Kuang
>>             Fix For: 0.4.0
>>
>>         Attachments: filter.patch
>>
>>
>> Sometimes a map/red job only wants to work on a subset of input  
>> data for the needs of its apllication or at the debugging phase.  
>> It would be convenient if an input format transparently handles  
>> this. It should provide an API that allows a programmer to specify  
>> a filtering criteria.
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