[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-4375) Add missing Key constructors taking array of bytes as argument

["Mario Pastorelli (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mario Pastorelli created ACCUMULO-4375:
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             Summary: Add missing Key constructors taking array of bytes as argument
                 Key: ACCUMULO-4375
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4375
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
            Reporter: Mario Pastorelli


In my company we use {{Key}} built directly from {{byte[]}} instead of {{Text}}. Currently {{Key}} has many constructors working with {{Text}} and only few working with {{byte[]}}. You can still use the {{Text}}-based constructor to create a {{Key}} from a {{byte[]}} by wrapping it into a {{Text}}, but this requires to box a {{byte[]}} into {{Text}} without any good reason.
I propose to add the missing {{byte[]}}-based {{Key}} constructors, which are:

{code:java}
Key(byte[] row)
Key(byte[] row, long ts)
Key(byte[] row, byte[] cf)
Key(byte[] row, byte[] cf, byte[] cq)
Key(byte[] row, byte[] cf, byte[] cq, byte[] cv)
Key(byte[] row, byte[] cf, byte[] cq, long ts)
Key(byte[] row, byte[] cf, byte[] cq, ColumnVisibility cv, long ts)
{code}

The new constructor should behave like the {{Text}}-based counterpart, for instance:

{code:java}
byte[] row = new byte[] {0};
assertEquals(new Key(row), new Key(new Text(row)));
{code}



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