Github user milleruntime commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/159#discussion_r88679462
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/iterators/SortedKeyValueIterator.java
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@@ -147,4 +147,13 @@
* if not supported.
*/
SortedKeyValueIterator<K,V> deepCopy(IteratorEnvironment env);
+
+ /**
+ * Closes the Iterator. This should be overridden by the implementing
class that has access to <tt>SortedKeyValueIterator source</tt> provided in the
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Simplified version (still nothing about exceptions though):
Closes any resources that were opened by the
<tt>SortedKeyValueIterator</tt>. This method does nothing by default. If the
implementing class opens any kind of resources, such as <tt>source</tt>
provided in the <tt>init</tt> method, than it should be overridden to close
those resources.
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