keith-turner commented on a change in pull request #313: ACCUMULO-4726 Add 
Value.contentEquals(byte[]) method
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/313#discussion_r145848739
 
 

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 File path: core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/data/Value.java
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 @@ -242,16 +242,16 @@ public int compareTo(final byte[] that) {
 
   @Override
   public boolean equals(Object right_obj) {
-    // compare with byte[] for backwards compatibility, but this is generally 
a pretty bad practice
-    if (right_obj instanceof byte[]) {
-      return compareTo((byte[]) right_obj) == 0;
 
 Review comment:
   Could throw an exception in this case.  That way if anyone was relying on 
this behavior it fails cleanly.

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