HADOOP-534. Change the default value classes in JobConf to be Text, not the now-deprecated UTF8. Contributed by Hairong.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/hadoop/trunk@446695 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -17,10 +17,18 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
 4. HADOOP-288.  Add a file caching system and use it in MapReduce to
    cache job jar files on slave nodes.  (Mahadev Konar via cutting)
 
-5. HADOOP-532.  Fix a bug reading value-compressed sequence files,
+
+Release 0.6.2 (unreleased)
+
+1. HADOOP-532.  Fix a bug reading value-compressed sequence files,
    where an exception was thrown reporting that the full value had not
    been read.  (omalley via cutting)
 
+2. HADOOP-534.  Change the default value class in JobConf to be Text
+   instead of the now-deprecated UTF8.  This fixes the Grep example
+   program, which was updated to use Text, but relies on this
+   default.  (Hairong Kuang via cutting)
+
 
 Release 0.6.1 - 2006-08-13
 

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobConf.java

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.UTF8;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.CompressionCodec;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.IdentityMapper;
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ public class JobConf extends Configuration {
 
   /** @deprecated Call {@link RecordReader#createValue()}. */
   public Class getInputValueClass() {
-    return getClass("mapred.input.value.class", UTF8.class, Writable.class);
+    return getClass("mapred.input.value.class", Text.class, Writable.class);
   }
 
   /** @deprecated Not used */
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ public class JobConf extends Configuration {
   }
 
   public Class getOutputValueClass() {
-    return getClass("mapred.output.value.class", UTF8.class, Writable.class);
+    return getClass("mapred.output.value.class", Text.class, Writable.class);
   }
   public void setOutputValueClass(Class theClass) {
     setClass("mapred.output.value.class", theClass, Writable.class);