[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-2445) API should use collection-of-bytes representation instead of Text

["Sean Busbey (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sean Busbey commented on ACCUMULO-2445:
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Strong preference given for ByteBuffer

> API should use collection-of-bytes representation instead of Text
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-2445
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2445
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: client
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
>            Reporter: Sean Busbey
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
>
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> Right now we use Text as a container for bytes rather than as a UTF8 representation of a string. This results in some gymnastics when people wish to use byte sequences that are not valid UTF8 (see ACCUMULO-2437).
> We should use some representation of plain bytes (ideally byte[] or ByteBuffer) and deprecate the use of Text so we can remove it later.



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