[jira] [Resolved] (ACCUMULO-2487) Value implementation provides conflicting statements

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2487?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sean Busbey resolved ACCUMULO-2487.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> Value implementation provides conflicting statements
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-2487
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2487
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Mike Drob
>            Assignee: Sean Busbey
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 1.6.0
>
>
> The javadoc for the no-arg constructor for {{Value}} states that it "Creates a zero-size sequence." However, the implementation of get will error in this case.
> {code}
> public byte[] get() {
>     if (this.value == null) {
>       throw new IllegalStateException("Uninitialized. Null constructor " + "called w/o accompanying readFields invocation");
>     }
> {code}
> Either we need to change the javadoc to be more explicit or change the behaviour of various accessors in the class. I would consider both solutions to be breaking of the API contract since we are changing what clients can expect from us.



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