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[jira] [Created] (OAK-1049) Blobs shouldn't be Comparable

Jukka Zitting created OAK-1049:
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             Summary: Blobs shouldn't be Comparable
                 Key: OAK-1049
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-1049
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
            Reporter: Jukka Zitting
            Assignee: Jukka Zitting


In OAK-350 Blobs were made Comparable to make them easier to compare in higher-level code.

Unfortunately the implementation is broken ({{compareTo}} is not transitive) and  potentially very slow for large binaries, which suggests that it shouldn't be exposed at least on the public API level.

Thus I suggest to drop the Comparable feature from Blobs and replace the few places where it is needed with {{equals()}} checks or explicit scanning of the streams.

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