[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-3168) WholeRowIterator.decode could return NavigableMap instead of SortedMap

["William Slacum (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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William Slacum commented on ACCUMULO-3168:
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Or just {{TreeMap}}, and then anyone whose API takes a {{Map}}, {{SortedMap}}, {{NavigableMap}}, {{MagellanMap}} or {{TreeMap}} can use it.

> WholeRowIterator.decode could return NavigableMap instead of SortedMap
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-3168
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3168
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Mike Drob
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: newbie
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
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> {{WRI.decode()}} returns a TreeMap declared as a SortedMap. We could give users access to useful methods on NavigableMap without limiting which implementation we can use out of the Java collections packages, if we decide to swap it out at a later date.



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