Pipe API without expectation that return value is GenomicRDD

[heuermh]

[fnothaft]

What's the use case? Its hard to understand what this means without a usage example.

[heuermh]

Streaming out to external applications via one of the ADAM formats Formatters but streaming back into non-Genomic RDD or Dataset/DataFrame, say generic text/csv/etc.

[fnothaft]

Ah, I see. Would the return type be RDD[String] and each record would be a line?

[heuermh]

Would the return type be RDD[String] and each record would be a line?

Yes, I believe that would be sufficient.

[fnothaft]

Do you want to take this for 0.25.0? I would imagine the converse RDD[String] => GenomicRDD could be valuable as well.