## Overview

Replication relies on immutability provided by versioning to sync objects between the configured source and replication target. Replication results in the object data, metadata, last modification time and version ID all being identical between the source and target. Thus version ordering is automatically guaranteed on the source and target clusters.

### Replication of object version and metadata

    Object[] array = collection.toArray();
    expectArrayContentsAnyOrder(createSamplesArray(), array);
  }

  /**
   * {@link Collection#toArray(Object[])} says: "Note that {@code toArray(new Object[0])} is
   * identical in function to {@code toArray()}."
   *
   * <p>For maximum effect, the collection under test should be created from an element array of a
   * type other than {@code Object[]}.
   */

    Object[] array = collection.toArray();
    expectArrayContentsAnyOrder(createSamplesArray(), array);
  }

  /**
   * {@link Collection#toArray(Object[])} says: "Note that {@code toArray(new Object[0])} is
   * identical in function to {@code toArray()}."
   *
   * <p>For maximum effect, the collection under test should be created from an element array of a
   * type other than {@code Object[]}.
   */

	    the same array length.</li>

	<li>Two slice types are identical if they have identical element types.</li>

	<li>Two struct types are identical if they have the same sequence of fields,
	    and if corresponding fields have the same names, and identical types,
	    and identical tags.
	    <a href="#Exported_identifiers">Non-exported</a> field names from different

* Correctness at startup; with the sequencing above, items are only processed once all informers are synced. This means queries will not return stale data at startup.
* Deduping of identical events
* Automatic retrying of failed events (configurable)

The above logic is critical to handle correctly to ensure correctness of a controller.

 * {@link #putString(CharSequence, Charset)} is generally only useful for cross-language
 * compatibility (otherwise prefer {@link #putUnencodedChars}). However, the character encodings
 * must be identical across languages. Also beware that {@link Charset} definitions may occasionally
 * change between Java releases.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> Chunks of data that are put into the {@link Hasher} are not delimited. The

   * value that are {@linkplain Range#isConnected connected} to this range.
   *
   * <p>The behavior of {@link #get(Comparable) get(k)} after calling this method is identical to
   * the behavior described in {@link #put(Range, Object) put(range, value)}, however the ranges
   * returned from {@link #asMapOfRanges} will be different if there were existing entries which

!!! tip

   * 'affect' a bit(j) in the output if two inputs, identical but for bit(i), will differ at output
   * bit(j) about half the time
   *
   * <p>Funneling is pretty simple to detect. The key idea is to find example keys which
   * unequivocally demonstrate that funneling cannot be occurring. This is done bit-by-bit. For each
   * input bit(i) and output bit(j), two pairs of keys must be found with all bits identical except

          result.throwException();
          return 0; // Not called.
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /** Returns a new CharBuffer identical to buf, except twice the capacity. */
  private static CharBuffer grow(CharBuffer buf) {
    char[] copy = Arrays.copyOf(buf.array(), buf.capacity() * 2);
    CharBuffer bigger = CharBuffer.wrap(copy);