Eliminate ByteBuffers

[Mark Thornton]

Elliotte Harold wrote:
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> I think named attributes need to be reduced to a simple String name 
> and an Object or String (probably Object) value. ByteBuffers simply 
> should not be in the picture here. I guess you have ByteBuffers on the 
> brain because of all the other work you're doing with them, but 
> they're  not a common or comfortable API for this sort of work. Nor 
> are they necessary.  I think if you treat the NamedAttributeView as a 
> map, it will be much simpler, cleaner, and more effective.
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What sort of data do you expect to find in named attributes? NTFS 
alternate data streams could contain anything and would usually be binary.

Mark Thornton