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paul sutter commented on HADOOP-310:
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That would be even better... but would require a rewrite and retest of the rest 
of the class (the class already supports a length, but not an offset). 

> Additional constructor requested in BytesWritable
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HADOOP-310
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-310
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: io
>     Reporter: paul sutter
>     Priority: Minor

>
> It would be grand if BytesWritable.java had an additional constructor as 
> below. This allows me to use the BytesWritable class without doing a buffer 
> copy, since we have a less-than-fully-utilized byte array holding our key.
> Thanks!
>  
>  /**
>    * Create a BytesWritable using the byte array as the initial value.
>    * @param bytes This array becomes the backing storage for the object.
>    */
>   public BytesWritable(byte[] bytes, int size) {
>     this.bytes = bytes;
>     this.size = size;
>   }
>   

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