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Kurt Greaves updated CASSANDRA-14476: ------------------------------------- Labels: lhf (was: ) > ShortType and ByteType are incorrectly considered variable-length types > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-14476 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14476 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Vladimir Krivopalov > Priority: Minor > Labels: lhf > > The AbstractType class has a method valueLengthIfFixed() that returns -1 for > data types with a variable length and a positive value for types with a fixed > length. This is primarily used for efficient serialization and > deserialization. > > It turns out that there is an inconsistency in types ShortType and ByteType > as those are in fact fixed-length types (2 bytes and 1 byte, respectively) > but they don't have the valueLengthIfFixed() method overloaded and it returns > -1 as if they were of variable length. > > It would be good to fix that at some appropriate point, for example, when > introducing a new version of SSTables format, to keep the meaning of the > function consistent across data types. Saving some bytes in serialized format > is a minor but pleasant bonus. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org