[jira] [Created] (HBASE-11437) Modify cell tag handling code to treat the length as unsigned

["Anoop Sam John (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Anoop Sam John created HBASE-11437:
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             Summary: Modify cell tag handling code to treat the length as unsigned
                 Key: HBASE-11437
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11437
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Anoop Sam John
            Assignee: Anoop Sam John
             Fix For: 0.99.0, 0.94.5


We store each tag's length and total tags length with 2 bytes in KeyValue buffer, HFiles etc and we treat these lengths as short through out the code.  So the max length can be Short.MAX_VALUE.   We can treat these lengths as unsigned and +ve always.  So we can actually treat these lengths as int and store with 2 bytes so that the max length can reach 65535.



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