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Brock Noland updated HADOOP-310:
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Attachment: bytes-writable-zero-copy-interface-1.patch
Updated one test assert statement with reason for failure.
> Additional constructor requested in BytesWritable
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>
> Key: HADOOP-310
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-310
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: io
> Reporter: p sutter
> Assignee: Owen O'Malley
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: bytes-writable-zero-copy-interface-0.patch,
> bytes-writable-zero-copy-interface-1.patch
>
>
> It would be grand if BytesWritable.java had an additional constructor as
> below. This allows me to use the BytesWritable class without doing a buffer
> copy, since we have a less-than-fully-utilized byte array holding our key.
> Thanks!
>
> /**
> * Create a BytesWritable using the byte array as the initial value.
> * @param bytes This array becomes the backing storage for the object.
> */
> public BytesWritable(byte[] bytes, int size) {
> this.bytes = bytes;
> this.size = size;
> }
>
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