[HBASE-9247] Cleanup Key/KV/Meta/MetaKey Comparators

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.96.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jonathan Hsieh
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 16/Aug/13 05:47
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:56
• Resolved: 29/Aug/13 20:45

Description

HBASE-9164 converted KVComparator's KeyCompare#compare guts from one that assumed a contiguous array backing a KV to one that used the Cell interface which doesn't have this assumption.

There is now duplicate code that should be cleaned up.