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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-17086: ---------------------------------------- Better NOT to mention KV and KV format in Cell.. What we need to say is that HBase uses 2 bytes to store cell's tag length. As it is going to be +ve numbers always, we save sign bit and so max tags length = 2 * short.MAX +1 Tell the number. So even if the return type is int, the max tags length is less than Int.MAX value. > Add comments to explain why Cell#getTagsLength() returns an int, rather than > a short > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-17086 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17086 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Interface > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Xiang Li > Assignee: Xiang Li > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HBASE-17086.master.000.patch > > > In the Cell interface, getTagsLength() returns a int > But in the KeyValue implementation, tags length is of 2 bytes. Also in > ExtendedCell, when explaining the KeyValue format, tags length is stated to > be 2 bytes > Any plan to update Cell interface to make getTagsLength() returns a short ? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)