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Todd Lipcon commented on HADOOP-5640:
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That's somewhat feasible, but lacking deep-copy support in a lot of the hadoop 
classes, it's a bit hard to ensure.

I guess we're probably best off just leaving this with a warning... the two 
warning options are:

a) Your plugin hooks are called in the same thread as the service you are 
plugging into. Ensure that you do not ever block in a plugin hook.
b) Your plugin hooks are called in a separate thread from the service you are 
plugging into. Ensure that you do are aware of any synchronization issues that 
might arise as a result.

Personally I prefer (a) still, since it's trivial to understand whether your 
code blocks, whereas it is somewhat more difficult to know whether you have a 
race. But, if others still prefer (b), that's fine.

> Allow ServicePlugins to hook callbacks into key service events
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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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