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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-6948) There's no way to remove a property from a Configuration

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Mike Baranczak commented on HADOOP-6948:
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Just to clarify my comment: I don't really care if setting a property to null is allowed or not. I just initially assumed that this was how you'd un-set a property. 

> There's no way to remove a property from a Configuration
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6948
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6948
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: conf
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.2, 0.21.0
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Mike Baranczak
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The Configuration class has a lot of methods for setting properties, but it's impossible to remove a property once it's set. Trying to set it to null results in a NullPointerException, since java.util.Properties doesn't allow null values. When building a Configuration programmatically, this can be a problem. 

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