it's actually from Hbase. I see why the problem exists, but simply documenting that it needs a no argument constructor isn't really a solution to this particular hiccup with sequencefiles. It's not a big deal, we can easily get around it,I just thought it was worth noting Ananth T Sarathy
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Ananth Sarathy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, how can I report that? > > File a jira on the project that manages the type. I assume it is > Lucene in this case. > > > Also, it seems that requiring a no argument constructor but using an > > interface is kind of a broken paradigm. Shouldn't there be some other > > mechanism for this? > > The problem is that given a class name from the SequenceFile, we need > to build an "empty" object. The most natural way to provide that > capability is with a 0 argument constructor. > > -- Owen >
