[jira] [Created] (SENTRY-2043) Understand the reason of the KeyValue class design

["Sergio Peña (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Sergio Peña created SENTRY-2043:
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             Summary: Understand the reason of the KeyValue class design
                 Key: SENTRY-2043
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-2043
             Project: Sentry
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: Sentry
            Reporter: Sergio Peña


The KeyValue class is used to split a key-value string that Sentry uses to understand permissions. The community has some concern around this class because a string parsing is done on the constructor and the equals() method was case-insensitive before 1.7, then case-sensitive in 1.8 (caused hbase-indexer test failures), then case-insensitive on 2.0.

We should investigate if we can replace the KeyValue by a different more common class, such as apache commons Pair, and if we can find the reason about case sensitivity with other models.

This is a task jira, and if we find improvements on the class or the code, then we should create another JIRA to do that.



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