From 0f1987db4bae6a49f0d296cf4b4c281f9c4445f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Mollitor <dmollitor@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 10:19:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate BaseRecordReader

---
 .../main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/BaseRecordReader.java  | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/BaseRecordReader.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/BaseRecordReader.java
index 8c7f39028f..cca071ea8e 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/BaseRecordReader.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/io/BaseRecordReader.java
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
-// TODO(julien): this class appears to be unused -- can it be nuked? - todd
+/**
+ * Base record reader class.
+ *
+ * @deprecated
+ */
+@Deprecated
 public abstract class BaseRecordReader<T> extends RecordReader<T> {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BaseRecordReader.class);