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From: "Harsh J (Resolved) (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Resolved] (HADOOP-839) Improvements to GenericWritable
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Harsh J resolved HADOOP-839.
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      Resolution: Won't Fix
    Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change

This breaks the API. Besides, using this is pretty expensive and I hardly think GenericWritable is being used anywhere. We should be moving off to newer serialization techniques, like Avro.
                
> Improvements to GenericWritable
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-839
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-839
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>         Environment: All environment
>            Reporter: Feng Jiang
>         Attachments: patch.839.r488924
>
>
> GenericWritable has a few easily addressed problems.

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