Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-4726:
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Summary: Don't compare Value with byte[] in Value.equals()
Key: ACCUMULO-4726
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4726
Project: Accumulo
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core
Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
Fix For: 2.0.0
{{Value.equals(Object)}} currently supports directly comparing Value objects
with a {{byte[]}} parameter. This is bad practice, and should not be
encouraged, as it exploits a pre-generics Java behavior of accepting "Object"
as input, and is prone to user error because of lack of type safety. It is not
used by any Accumulo code, except for a test, but could be used by users, since
this is public API.
I suggest changing this behavior in 2.0.0 and replacing that functionality with
a {{contentEquals(byte[])}} method. This will need to be documented in the
release notes in case any users are (unlikely, but possible) comparing
{{Value}} with {{byte[]}} in this way.
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