[SPARK-5323] Row shouldn't extend Seq

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 19/Jan/15 20:41
• Updated: 20/Jan/15 23:16
• Resolved: 20/Jan/15 23:16

Description

Extending Seq comes at a huge cost:

1. Bytecode bloat (the Row constructor now has to make about 20 static calls to the init method of various constructors.

2. Documentation bloat (added hundreds of methods most of them are irrelevant).

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4115 (rxin)