ByteWritable.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.io;

import java.io.DataInput;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator;

/**
 * ByteWritable.
 * This class was created before the Hadoop version of this class was available, and needs to
 * be kept around for backward compatibility of third-party UDFs/SerDes. We should consider
 * removing this class in favor of directly using the Hadoop one in the next major release.
 */
public class ByteWritable extends org.apache.hadoop.io.ByteWritable {

  public ByteWritable(byte b) {
    super(b);
  }

  public ByteWritable() {
    super();
  }

  static { // register this comparator
    WritableComparator.define(ByteWritable.class, new Comparator());
  }

}