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Steve Loughran reassigned HADOOP-17430: --------------------------------------- Assignee: gaozhan ding > Restore ability to set Text to empty byte array > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-17430 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17430 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Wish > Components: common > Reporter: gaozhan ding > Assignee: gaozhan ding > Priority: Minor > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 3.3.1 > > Time Spent: 3.5h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > In org.apache.hadoop.io.Text:clear() method, the comments show that we can > free the bytes by call set(new byte[0]), but it's not going to work now. > Maybe we can follow this comments. > > > {code:java} > // org.apache.hadoop.io.Text > /** > * Clear the string to empty. > * > * <em>Note</em>: For performance reasons, this call does not clear the > * underlying byte array that is retrievable via {@link #getBytes()}. > * In order to free the byte-array memory, call {@link #set(byte[])} > * with an empty byte array (For example, <code>new byte[0]</code>). > */ > public void clear() { > length = 0; > textLength = -1; > } > {code} > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org