Rather than deprecating the method,
let it just call the method with the offset.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/datasketches/common/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/datasketches/common/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.java
index fdd14bd..c9438b6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/datasketches/common/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/datasketches/common/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.java
@@ -48,19 +48,21 @@
public abstract byte[] serializeToByteArray(T[] items);
/**
- * Deserialize a contiguous sequence of serialized items from a given Memory.
+ * Deserialize a contiguous sequence of serialized items from the given Memory
+ * starting at a Memory offset of zero and extending numItems.
*
* @param mem Memory containing a contiguous sequence of serialized items
* @param numItems number of items in the contiguous serialized sequence.
* @return array of deserialized items
- * @deprecated use
- * {@link #deserializeFromMemory(Memory, long, int) deserializeFromMemory(mem, offset, numItems)}
+ * @see #deserializeFromMemory(Memory, long, int)
*/
- @Deprecated
- public abstract T[] deserializeFromMemory(Memory mem, int numItems);
+ public T[] deserializeFromMemory(final Memory mem, final int numItems) {
+ return deserializeFromMemory(mem, 0, numItems);
+ }
/**
- * Deserialize a contiguous sequence of serialized items from a given Memory.
+ * Deserialize a contiguous sequence of serialized items from the given Memory
+ * starting at the given Memory <i>offsetBytes</i> and extending numItems.
*
* @param mem Memory containing a contiguous sequence of serialized items
* @param offsetBytes the starting offset in the given Memory.
