[SPARK-9483] UTF8String.getPrefix only works in little-endian order

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Matthew Brandyberry
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Shepherd: Davies Liu
• Created: 30/Jul/15 19:02
• Updated: 04/Aug/15 00:38
• Resolved: 04/Aug/15 00:38

Description

There are 2 bit masking and a reverse bytes that should probably be handled differently on big-endian order.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-9460 Avoid byte array allocation in StringPrefixComparator
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7856 (davies)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7902 (mtbrandy)