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Matt Zhang commented on APEXMALHAR-2263:
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Per our discussion today, we've agreed to change the offset to long. The
suggestion is:
- the probability of customer extension using the protected offset field is
very low.
- if they do, they’ll get compilation error, and as long as we doc it, it's an
easy fix.
- in addition, we will mark AbstractFileInputOperator as @Evolving
> Offsets in AbstractFileInputOperator should be long rather than int
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> Key: APEXMALHAR-2263
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APEXMALHAR-2263
> Project: Apache Apex Malhar
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: adapters other
> Reporter: Munagala V. Ramanath
> Assignee: Matt Zhang
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> Offsets in AbstractFileInputOperator use the int type which means files with
> more that (2**31 -1) records will cause overflows and mysterious failures.
> Should be changed to use long.
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