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Zhihong Yu commented on HBASE-6072:
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Instead of making value field protected, we can also add method resetValue() 
which clears the field.

@Dave:
What do you think ?
                
> Make TableRecordReaderImpl more easily extended
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-6072
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6072
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapreduce
>            Reporter: Dave Latham
>            Priority: Minor
>
> We have a MR job that is very memory bound.  It reads a potentially large row 
> from hbase, then deserializes it into an (even larger) object representation, 
> then does a fair amount of computation requiring memory.  After converting 
> the Result into our object representation we want to free the memory holding 
> the Result to be available for the actual computation of output values.
> Currently we have our own custom modified copy of TableRecordReaderImpl to be 
> able to set the Result value to null after reading it, but it's almost 
> entirely a duplicate of hbase's TableRecordReaderImpl so we have to manually 
> keep it up to date with changes to the hbase version.  If the value field of 
> TableRecordReaderImpl were protected instead of private we could use a very 
> simple subclass instead.
> Are there any philosophical guidelines about what parts of HBase should or 
> should not be easily extensible?

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