Github user joshelser commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/125#discussion_r71086520
--- Diff: core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/data/Key.java ---
@@ -107,6 +107,17 @@ public Key(Text row) {
}
/**
+ * Creates a key with the specified row, empty column family, empty
column qualifier, empty column visibility, timestamp {@link Long#MAX_VALUE},
and delete
+ * marker false.
--- End diff --
> I wonder if this is the right behaviour or if the user would expect the
byte array to be used as it is.
Copying the underlying array is definitely the safe/consistent thing to do.
I think we should avoid making another set of constructors just to support
users providing `copy=false`. That's pretty much what I was thinking about with
ACCUMULO-4376.
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