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Chris Li updated HADOOP-10376:
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    Attachment: HADOOP-10376.patch

Attached my patch to create a generic refresh protocol.

Motivation: currently there's too much duplication in the different 
refresh*Protocols, and the process of adding a new one involves making changes 
in 10+ files.

There were a couple different ways I thought of doing this:
Method 1: add multiple methods to the GenericRefreshProtocol interface
Method 2: have an identifier passed in, and have the receiving objects dispatch 
accordingly

Method 1:
- Most type safe

- Requires that each implementer implement *all* of its refresh methods (will 
basically limit this for use on the namenode)
- Requires users to modify 3 additional files to add a new refresh item, adding 
refresh* methods

Method 2
- Receiver can make best effort to respond to requests to refresh
- Users need only modify 1 additional file to add a new refresh item, user only 
needs to add a static String to the interface

- Request types not compiler enforced

The patch I've submitted uses method 2, preferring its flexibility and ease of 
adding new protocols.

> Refactor refresh*Protocols into a single generic refreshConfigProtocol
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-10376
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10376
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Chris Li
>            Assignee: Chris Li
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HADOOP-10376.patch
>
>
> See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10285
> There are starting to be too many refresh*Protocols We can refactor them to 
> use a single protocol with a variable payload to choose what to do.
> Thereafter, we can return an indication of success or failure.



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