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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-5640:
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I am slightly worried that making the datanode/namenode invoke plug-ins calls
synchronously at many different places introduces code complexity and may also
cause deadlocks depending on how the plug-ins are implemented. A plug-in
implementor has to know the finer-grain details about how the namenode/datanode
code pieces to write plugins that behave well without impacting
namenode/datanode performance.
Another approach would be to come up with a asynchronous publish/subscribe kind
of model. The namenode/datanode could write data to this channel without
waiting for the consumer(s) to pick it up. It could be similar to a
file-change-log, but will also contain internal state changes of dfs modules.
Thoughts?
> Allow ServicePlugins to hook callbacks into key service events
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>
> Key: HADOOP-5640
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5640
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: util
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>
> HADOOP-5257 added the ability for NameNode and DataNode to start and stop
> ServicePlugin implementations at NN/DN start/stop. However, this is
> insufficient integration for some common use cases.
> We should add some functionality for Plugins to subscribe to events generated
> by the service they're plugging into. Some potential hook points are:
> NameNode:
> - new datanode registered
> - datanode has died
> - exception caught
> - etc?
> DataNode:
> - startup
> - initial registration with NN complete (this is important for HADOOP-4707
> to sync up datanode.dnRegistration.name with the NN-side registration)
> - namenode reconnect
> - some block transfer hooks?
> - exception caught
> I see two potential routes for implementation:
> 1) We make an enum for the types of hookpoints and have a general function in
> the ServicePlugin interface. Something like:
> {code:java}
> enum HookPoint {
> DN_STARTUP,
> DN_RECEIVED_NEW_BLOCK,
> DN_CAUGHT_EXCEPTION,
> ...
> }
> void runHook(HookPoint hp, Object value);
> {code}
> 2) We make classes specific to each "pluggable" as was originally suggested
> in HADDOP-5257. Something like:
> {code:java}
> class DataNodePlugin {
> void datanodeStarted() {}
> void receivedNewBlock(block info, etc) {}
> void caughtException(Exception e) {}
> ...
> }
> {code}
> I personally prefer option (2) since we can ensure plugin API compatibility
> at compile-time, and we avoid an ugly switch statement in a runHook()
> function.
> Interested to hear what people's thoughts are here.
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