[jira] [Work logged] (HADOOP-17430) There is no way to clear Text bytes now

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ASF GitHub Bot logged work on HADOOP-17430:
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                Author: ASF GitHub Bot
            Created on: 12/Dec/20 02:08
            Start Date: 12/Dec/20 02:08
    Worklog Time Spent: 10m 
      Work Description: dgzdot opened a new pull request #2544:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/2544


   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17430
   


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> There is no way to clear Text bytes now
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-17430
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17430
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: common
>            Reporter: gaozhan ding
>            Priority: Minor
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> In org.apache.hadoop.io.Text:clear() method, the comments show that we can free the bytes by call set(new byte[0]), but it's not going to work now. Maybe we can follow this comments.
>  
>  
> {code:java}
> // org.apache.hadoop.io.Text 
> /**
>  * Clear the string to empty.
>  *
>  * <em>Note</em>: For performance reasons, this call does not clear the
>  * underlying byte array that is retrievable via {@link #getBytes()}.
>  * In order to free the byte-array memory, call {@link #set(byte[])}
>  * with an empty byte array (For example, <code>new byte[0]</code>).
>  */
> public void clear() {
>   length = 0;
>   textLength = -1;
> }
> {code}
>  
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