Strange byte [] size conflict

[Matthew John]

Hi all,

I have a BytesWritable key that comes to the mapper.

If I give key.getLength(), it returns 32.

then I tried creating a new byte [] array initializing its size to 32. (byte
[] keybytes = new bytes [32];)

and I tried giving : keybytes = key.getBytes();

now keybytes.length (which should return 32) is returning 48 !

I dont understand why this is happening ! Please help me with this. !

Thanks,
Matthew