[jira] [Updated] (HBASE-6991) Escape "\" in Bytes.toStringBinary() and its counterpart Bytes.toBytesBinary()

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stack updated HBASE-6991:
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      Resolution: Fixed
    Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change,Reviewed  (was: Incompatible change)
          Status: Resolved  (was: Patch Available)

Committed to trunk.  Thanks for the patch Aditya.  Nice one.  That already encoded stuff should be undone properly should protect us against pre 0.96 data looking different in 0.96.
                
> Escape "\" in Bytes.toStringBinary() and its counterpart Bytes.toBytesBinary()
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-6991
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6991
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: util
>    Affects Versions: 0.96.0
>            Reporter: Aditya Kishore
>            Assignee: Aditya Kishore
>             Fix For: 0.96.0
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-6991_trunk.patch
>
>
> Since "\" is used to escape non-printable character but not treated as special character in conversion, it could lead to unexpected conversion.
> For example, please consider the following code snippet.
> {code}
> public void testConversion() {
>   byte[] original = {
>       '\\', 'x', 'A', 'D'
>   };
>   String stringFromBytes = Bytes.toStringBinary(original);
>   byte[] converted = Bytes.toBytesBinary(stringFromBytes);
>   System.out.println("Original: " + Arrays.toString(original));
>   System.out.println("Converted: " + Arrays.toString(converted));
>   System.out.println("Reversible?: " + (Bytes.compareTo(original, converted) == 0));
> }
> Output:
> -------
> Original: [92, 120, 65, 68]
> Converted: [-83]
> Reversible?: false
> {code}
> The "\" character needs to be treated as special and must be encoded as a non-printable character ("\x5C") to avoid any kind of ambiguity during conversion.

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