On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Tim Sell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
>
>

Hey Mighty Tim.


I think a good design would be one in which the java/rest and thrift
> apis were simply implementing the same interface.
>

Yes.

I've not looked at the two idls.  Could we put them together and have
thrift package do both apis (you can all slap me if that a dumb idea).



> A better one might be that the thrift and rest packages are stand
> alone java projects that build separately and simply depend on HBase,
> but that would be a hassle for deployment.
>
>
Yes.  Could make them separate projects if someone wanted to own them.



> The thing is, if I was using hbase today, I wouldn't use the hbase
> thrift or thrift2 api, I'd implement my own thrift api (in java) that
> was domain specific so that the application didn't know it was talking
> to hbase.
>

That makes sense.  I'd imagine though that you wouldn't mind having an
existing IDL for inspiration.

St.Ack

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