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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-11437:
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bq. IMO, Cell#getTagsLength() can be kept as deprecated in 0.98.x and 0.99 and
can be removed from master (2.0.0). What do you say?
Another option would be to deprecate both 'short Cell#getTagsLength' and 'int
Cell#getTagsLengthUnsigned' in 0.98 and 0.99 and for 2.0.0 replace both with
'int Cell#getTagsLength'. Thus, in trunk we replace a short return type with an
int and keep a reasonable method name, while respecting deprecation convention.
What do you think?
> Modify cell tag handling code to treat the length as unsigned
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> Key: HBASE-11437
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11437
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.98.0
> Reporter: Anoop Sam John
> Assignee: Anoop Sam John
> Fix For: 0.99.0, 0.98.5, 2.0.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-11437.patch
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> We store each tag's length and total tags length with 2 bytes in KeyValue
> buffer, HFiles etc and we treat these lengths as short through out the code.
> So the max length can be Short.MAX_VALUE. We can treat these lengths as
> unsigned and +ve always. So we can actually treat these lengths as int and
> store with 2 bytes so that the max length can reach 65535.
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