[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-6546) BloomMapFile can return false negatives

["Clark Jefcoat (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Clark Jefcoat commented on HADOOP-6546:
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The issue is with the call 
{{
  bloomKey.set(buf.getData(), 1.0);
}}
which appears twice in the BloomMapFile source.  The buf variable is a DataOutputBuffer.  The documentation for DataOutputBuffer clearly states that getData() is only valid to getLength().  But bloomKey is an o.a.h.util.bloom.Key which expects the entire array that it is getting to be valid.


> BloomMapFile can return false negatives
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6546
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6546
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: io
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.1
>            Reporter: Clark Jefcoat
>
> BloomMapFile can return false negatives when using keys of varying sizes.  If the amount of data written by the write() method of your key class differs between instance of your key, your BloomMapFile may return false negatives.

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