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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-3590:
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All I know is this class is abused because there was/is a need for bits and
pieces that ByteBuffers don't fully address – you cannot change the underlying
array (must rewrap) and you cannot fiddle with hash code, for example. I like
access to internals sometimes.
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Right, the abuse exists... we have to accept this is just the case and deal
with it appropriately, step 1 being to make sure the 'abuse use case' and the
'ordinary use case' can be clearly separated. But having a broken API that is
sometimes shallow, sometimes deep, trying to support both use cases in
whichever way we feel is 'natural' is unacceptable.
> minimize bytesref to be a ref to a byte[]
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> Key: LUCENE-3590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3590
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 4.0
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: LUCENE-3590_copyCtor.patch
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>
> Setting this as blocker for 4.0, as this class is used in every API there.
> Currently this API is a little of a everything, sometimes its like a
> stringbuffer, it
> does numeric conversions, all kinds of stuff.
> We need this to be a ref to a byte[], nothing else. This other stuff can go
> somewhere else.
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