Thanks for bringing this up Chia-Ping Tsai. Yes, the question can be more general whether we need to support the old API.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@apache.org> wrote: > There are other tools having two versions - o.a.h.h.mapreduce and > o.a.h.h.mapred > It seems to me the question is "should hbase support old MR APIs ?' Given > that hadoop 3.0 doesn't mark old MR APIs deprecated, we should keep them in > hbase? Or we can deprecate them in hbase-2+ in order to remove them in the > future? > > On 2018/04/10 16:02:07, Peter Somogyi <psomo...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Currently we have 2 RowCounter tools in our > > repository: o.a.h.h.mapreduce.RowCounter and o.a.h.h.mapred.RowCounter. > > None of them is marked as deprecated but mapred.RowCounter was deprecated > > in pre-HBase 1 releases and the annotation was eventually removed > > in HBASE-11178. > > > > Do we still want to or need to keep both versions? The mapred tool is not > > documented in refguide and the command's usage is minimal. The > > mapreduce.RowCounter tool also has more features. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > >
