How Can I Use Reverse Sort On Integer (or Long) Accumulo Keys?

Here is code with debugging (i.e., the original key is retained) so that you can see the reverse sort is working.

package com.codebits.accumulo;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.AccumuloException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.AccumuloSecurityException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.BatchWriter;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.Connector;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.Instance;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.Scanner;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.TableExistsException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.TableNotFoundException;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.client.mock.MockInstance;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Key;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Mutation;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Value;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.security.Authorizations;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

public class ReversingIntSortOrderWithMockInstanceDriver {

  static byte[] convert(int value) {
    byte[] key = ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(value).array();
    byte[] reverse_key = ByteBuffer.allocate(4).putInt(Integer.MAX_VALUE - value).array();
    byte[] rv = new byte[8];
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
      rv[i] = reverse_key[i];
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
      rv[i + 4] = key[i];
    }
    return rv;
  }

  public static String toHexString(byte[] ba) {
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < ba.length; i++)
      str.append(String.format("%x", ba[i]));
    return str.toString();
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, AccumuloException, AccumuloSecurityException, TableExistsException, TableNotFoundException {
    Instance mock = new MockInstance("development");
    Connector connector = mock.getConnector("root", "password".getBytes());
    connector.tableOperations().create("TABLEA");

    BatchWriter wr = connector.createBatchWriter("TABLEA", 10000000, 10000, 5);
    for (int i = 5; i > 0; --i) {
      byte[] key = convert(i);
      Mutation m = new Mutation(new Text(key));
      m.put("cf", "cq", "value");
      wr.addMutation(m);
    }
    wr.close();

    Scanner scanner = connector.createScanner("TABLEA", new Authorizations());
    Iterator<Map.Entry<Key, Value>> iterator = scanner.iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
      Map.Entry entry = iterator.next();
      Key key = entry.getKey();
      System.out.println(toHexString(key.getRow().getBytes()));
    }
  }
}

This code produces this output:

7ffffffa0005
7ffffffb0004
7ffffffc0003
7ffffffd0002
7ffffffe0001

I'll leave it to the reader to remove the debugging code.