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

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-2445:
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After using ByteBuffer a bit, I think it is extremely unfriendly to work with. I'm leaning towards something a bit simpler, more like our current ByteSequence. Of course, making it easily convertible to/from ByteBuffer would be helpful, so I'd want to do that. What do you guys think?

> 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: 2.0.0
>
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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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