[MAPREDUCE-5995] native-task: revert changes which expose Text internals

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: task
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 23/Jul/14 01:01
• Updated: 13/Sep/14 14:05
• Resolved: 27/Jul/14 19:15

Description

The current branch has some changes to the Text writable which allow it to manually set the backing array, capacity, etc. Rather than exposing these internals, we should use the newly-committed facility from HADOOP-10855 to implement this.