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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-9030:
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Merging HDFS-9029 into this.
Digging into this today, I realize what an INCREDIBLY short sighted thing we've
done.
Basically, libhdfs and libwebhdfs are interchangeable at link time since they
expose the exact same APIs. On the surface, this appears like a great,
convinent feature:
* hdfs.h is the same header for both libraries
* API calls are the same so documentation is the same.
However:
* Users CANNOT (effectively) link both libraries in the same program
So your program either does HDFS RPC or WebHDFS REST. It cannot do both.
Worse, neither library actually exposes all of the APIs that have been declared
public. (I'm looking at you, snapshots).
It might be a blessing in disguise that this hasn't been exposed very widely
due to libwebhdfs not actually showing up in the tarballs.
> libwebhdfs lacks headers, documentation; not part of mvn package
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> Key: HDFS-9030
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9030
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
> Priority: Blocker
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> This library is useless without header files to include and documentation on
> how to use it. Both appear to be missing from the mvn package and site
> documentation.
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