GenericArray should implement Collection
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Key: AVRO-637
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-637
Project: Avro
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: java
Reporter: Doug Cutting
Assignee: Doug Cutting
It would be nice if Avro arrays were better integrated with Java collections.
The GenericArray interface permits array element reuse, which is awkward with
java.util.Collection. But if GenericArray implemented Collection and the Avro
runtime permitted arbitrary Collection implementations to be passed for Arrays
then it would simplify many applications. The runtime could still reuse
elements if an array implemented GenericArray, so performance would not suffer
for applications that, e.g., loop over a data file, reusing instances.
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