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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-2445:
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Big +1 to [~elserj]'s last comment. I think we want to move cautiously here.
Fluo Bytes is a WIP, that could be suitable to replace Text in future API
changes, but it's not yet done. Accumulo has its internal ByteSequence, and
Fluo has its own current Bytes, and there are others. I think Fluo Bytes will
be a good candidate in the future, but in the meantime, I don't know that we
have any good options that aren't just going to create churn.
> API should use collection-of-bytes representation instead of Text
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2445
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2445
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: client
> Affects Versions: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
> Reporter: Sean Busbey
> Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Right now we use Text as a container for bytes rather than as a UTF8
> representation of a string. This results in some gymnastics when people wish
> to use byte sequences that are not valid UTF8 (see ACCUMULO-2437).
> We should use some representation of plain bytes (ideally byte[] or
> ByteBuffer) and deprecate the use of Text so we can remove it later.
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