Text class should provide method to return byte array of getLength() --------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6868 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6868 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: util Affects Versions: 0.20.2 Reporter: Ted Yu People would use the following code to convert Text to String: String valueString = new String(valueText.getBytes(), "UTF-8"); However, if Text is reused, the above call would return String of monotonically increasing length. >From 'Hadoop and XML' discussion thread: The problem I am seeing is between the Map phase and the Reduce phase, the XML is getting munged. For Example: </PrivateRate> </PrivateRateSet>te> Text should provide method to return byte array of getLength() length. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.