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  Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-3282:
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  Nicholas: despite us advertising DFSDataInputStream as a private API, I imagine this change
  would break people. Could we instead just add a new interface which would be implemented by
  the existing class?
  > Expose getFileLength API.
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  >
  > Key: HDFS-3282
  > URL:
  > Project: Hadoop HDFS
  > Issue Type: Sub-task
  > Components: hdfs client
  > Affects Versions: 3.0.0
  > Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
  > Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G
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  > This JIRA is to expose the getFileLength API through a new public DistributedFileSystemInfo
  class.
  > I would appreciate if someone suggest good name for this public class.
  > Nicholas, did you plan any special design for this public client class?
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