Reading and Writing Sequencefile using Hadoop 2.0 Apis

Question

I am looking for an example which is using the new API to read and write Sequence Files.

Effectively I need to know how to use these functions

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Answer 1

You need to set SequenceFile as input format

job.setInputFormatClass(SequenceFileInputFormat.class);

You will find an example of reading SeequnceFile form HDFS here.