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Bill Havanki commented on ACCUMULO-1958:
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My preferred solution for this is to make the constructor protected, but that
would alter the API. Is it too late to do that for 1.6.0?
> Range constructor lacks key checks, should be non-public
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> Key: ACCUMULO-1958
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1958
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Bill Havanki
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> This ticket pertains to the Range class constructor with the following
> signature:
> {noformat}
> public Range(Key, Key, boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean)
> {noformat}
> The constructor does not check that the start key is before the end key, like
> every other constructor in the class. Since the constructor is public, this
> makes it possible for a caller to create invalid ranges.
> The constructor is used by other constructors that take in existing range
> objects, where the key check has implicitly been done, and so it would make
> sense to skip the check in this one, but then the constructor visibility
> should be at least protected.
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