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Micah Whitacre updated CRUNCH-475:
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Attachment: CRUNCH-475.patch
So since you brought this up on the mailing list I've been playing around with
the code off and on. Thinking about this I personally see the progression path
to HBase 1.0 as being...
1. Uplift current APIs to support Cell for reading/writing from HBase/HFile
2. Deprecate the KeyValue based APIs to encourage people to use Cell instead.
3. Refactor internals of Crunch (HFileUtil) to completely remove KeyValue when
1.0 has finally been released.
By step #3, the upgrade path for consumers should be a lot simpler.
Since HFile only supports KeyValue in HBase 0.98 it partially restricts how far
down the Cell migration we can go. Avoiding playing games with compilation to
keep the code clean and simple serialization stayed compliant with KeyValue.
We'd obviously change it if HFile reading/writing supported Cells. In version
0.98 of HBase there are no Cell implementations besides KeyValue so they are
fairly intertwined.
This patch is definitely a work in progress. It currently only supports
reading Cells. I haven't touched the code to support writing a Cell (still
only writes through KeyValue). Additionally the patch is disruptive and
doesn't support passivity or binary compatibility.
> Compilation problem caused by KeyValue -> Cell conversion
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> Key: CRUNCH-475
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-475
> Project: Crunch
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0
> Reporter: Lee Dongjin
> Assignee: Josh Wills
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: CRUNCH-475.patch
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> From hbase 0.99, Using KeyValue class for hbase I/O is deprecated and in many
> APIs it was replaced with Cell interface[^1][^2][^3]. This change causes
> compilation error with hbase 0.99, which is the first hbase version that
> supports hadoop 2 only.
> For this change will be permanent from hbase 1.0 and on, it would be better
> to be fixed.
> [^1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11805
> [^2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9359
> [^3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10526
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