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[jira] [Commented] (MRUNIT-70) copy(orig, conf) in Serialization shouldn't require objects to have a no-args constructor, and copy(orig, copy, conf) seems to violate contract for deserializer.deserialize()

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Brock Noland commented on MRUNIT-70:
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Writables must have a default constructor because they are created via reflection. WritableSerialization, the class, does the same thing we do via ReflectionUtils. Are you not using Writables?

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-1/src/core/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/
                
> copy(orig, conf) in Serialization shouldn't require objects to have a no-args constructor, and copy(orig, copy, conf) seems to violate contract for deserializer.deserialize()
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>                 Key: MRUNIT-70
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRUNIT-70
>             Project: MRUnit
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
>            Reporter: Meloss Xeloss
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The copy(orig, conf) method requires objects to have a no-args constructor, which is non-ideal, since it passes on to Deserializer.deserialize, which can create a new object if passed in null. Additionally, the contract for deserialize only _can_ fill in the object passed in, so the copy method will not perform as expected if it does not.
> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/serializer/Deserializer.html#deserialize%28T%29

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