private static TableDescriptorBuilder updateLatestPriority(TableDescriptorBuilder builder,
    long priority) {
    // update the max priority
    return builder.setValue(COUNTER_KEY, Long.toString(priority));
  }
Read in the configuration from the String encoded configuration
@param bytes to read from
@return A valid configuration
@throws IOException if the configuration could not be read
hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/constraint/Constraints.java