[HADOOP-6868] Text class should provide method to return byte array of getLength()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.2
• Component/s: util
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ted Yu
• Created: 20/Jul/10 14:20
• Updated: 20/Jul/10 19:59
• Resolved: 20/Jul/10 19:59

Description

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.