in src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/access/AccessExpression.java [207:212]
public static void validate(byte[] expression) throws InvalidAccessExpressionException {
if (expression.length > 0) {
Predicate<Tokenizer.AuthorizationToken> atp = authToken -> true;
ParserEvaluator.parseAccessExpression(expression, atp, atp);
} // else empty expression is valid, avoid object allocation
}