[HADOOP-6224] Add a method to WritableUtils performing a bounded read of a String

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: io
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jothi Padmanabhan
• Reporter: Jothi Padmanabhan
• Created: 31/Aug/09 04:51
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:39
• Resolved: 02/Sep/09 07:07

Description

MAPREDUCE-318 needs to sanity check vint-length-encoded Strings read from a byte stream. It would be appropriate to add this as a general utility method.