Weird, I commented on a different line (namely on the setHravenUserNamePut, not this one.
Here I'd say, just remove the hRavenUserName argument and derive it from the conf right here by using the ConfUtil.getUserNameInConf. That way you can eliminate the extra argument.
Perhaps even better is to not get it from the conf (again) and simply pull it from the key, that way there is not chance that we have two different code paths getting to a different value for the same thing.