[jira] [Resolved] (HADOOP-3482) Think to some modification to the API

["Eli Collins (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Eli Collins resolved HADOOP-3482.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Out of date

> Think to some modification to the API
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>                 Key: HADOOP-3482
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3482
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Brice Arnould
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I know that it is out of question to break everything just for minor comfort improvements.
> But I think that we should evaluate the cost of improving the API, and the way we might do this without too much breaks, before the API freeze of 1.0 . If we start now, it could be a gradual process that would end only with the 1.0 release.
> I do not particulary focus on those modifications, but here is a samples of what questions I would like to raise.
> # Text could provide a append(Text other) method
> # Text could implements CharSequence
> # Some Iterators could be turned into IterableIterators.
> # We could consider a more consistent naming (Text could be renamed TextWritable, JobConfigurable.configure() could be turn in JobConfigurable.setConf() to match Configurable and so on)
> 1. and 2. seems imediatly accessible, even if 1. would benefit of the use of a resizable container to store bytes.
> 3. requires in theory only the add of a new IterableIteror class inheriting of Iterator. But making that change visible to the user would require a change in some interface like Mapper and Reducer.
> 4. *Configurable:* If those Interfaces are only used in the ReflectionUtils, it would be enough to deprecate JobConfigurable and to consider it as a particular case of Configurable. Another option would be to deprecate both and to add support in newInstance for passing parameters to constructors.
> *Text:* Text could be an empty class inheriting of TextWritable, in a package like org.hadoop.compat .

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