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Owen O'Malley updated HADOOP-6298:
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Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
Assignee: Owen O'Malley
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> BytesWritable#getBytes is a bad name that leads to programming mistakes
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> Key: HADOOP-6298
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6298
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.20.1
> Reporter: Nathan Marz
> Assignee: Owen O'Malley
> Fix For: 0.22.0
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> Attachments: h-6298.patch
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> Pretty much everyone at Rapleaf who has worked with Hadoop has misused
> BytesWritable#getBytes at some point, not expecting the byte array to be
> padded. I think we can completely alleviate these programming mistakes by
> deprecating and renaming this method (again) to be more descriptive. I
> propose "getPaddedBytes()" or "getPaddedValue()". It would also be helpful to
> have a helper method "getNonPaddedValue()" that makes a copy into a
> non-padded byte array.
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