Re: Two questions about GenericArray in the Java implementation

[Doug Cutting]

On 05/19/2010 06:16 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
2) Why is there no get(index i) method? I can get an iterator and
continually call next(), but sometimes you want to look up a single element
by index.

An array could in theory be larger than fits in memory, so random access 
should perhaps not be encouraged.  That said, the only implementation of 
this interface, GenericData.Array, is entirely in memory.  Probably we 
should at least add a get(int) method to that class.

Doug