Text and/or ImmutableBytesWritable issue?

[Jason Grey]

Can anyone explain why "testTextToBytes" doesn't assert and
"testStringToBytes" does?


import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

public class TestImmutableBytesWritable extends TestCase {
        
        public void testTextToBytes(){
        
                Text input = new Text("this is a test.");
                
                ImmutableBytesWritable bytes =
                        new ImmutableBytesWritable( input.getBytes() );
                
                Text output = new Text( bytes.get() );
                
                assertEquals(input, output);
                
        }

        public void testStringToBytes(){
                
                String input = "this is a test.";
                
                ImmutableBytesWritable bytes =
                        new ImmutableBytesWritable( input.getBytes() );
                
                String output = new String( bytes.get() );
                
                assertEquals(input, output);
                
        }
}


If I inspect the objects during debugging at the point of the assert I
see the following:

* input
        bytes = [116, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105
                , 115, 32, 97, 32, 116, 101
                , 115, 116, 46, 0]
        length = 15

* bytes =       [116, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105
                , 115, 32, 97, 32, 116, 101
                , 115, 116, 46, 0]

* output
        bytes = [116, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105
                , 115, 32, 97, 32, 116, 101
                , 115, 116, 46, 0]
        length = 16

The length property appears to be off between the two Text objects, but
all the data is correct... any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

-jg-