[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-2487) Value implementation provides conflicting statements

["Mike Drob (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mike Drob created ACCUMULO-2487:
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             Summary: Value implementation provides conflicting statements
                 Key: ACCUMULO-2487
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2487
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: client
            Reporter: Mike Drob
            Priority: Minor


The javadoc for the no-arg constructor for {{Value}} states that it "Creates a zero-size sequence." However, the implementation of get will error in this case.
{code}
public byte[] get() {
    if (this.value == null) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Uninitialized. Null constructor " + "called w/o accompanying readFields invocation");
    }
{code}

Either we need to change the javadoc to be more explicit or change the behaviour of various accessors in the class. I would consider both solutions to be breaking of the API contract since we are changing what clients can expect from us.



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