Github user greghogan commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3595
When expanding with `write` the new capacity (up to `position` of course)
is filled with data. Expanding with `setPosition` can leave holes in the data
and may mask a bug. Since these classes are undocumented it would be safer to
leave this behavior unmodified.
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