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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-9047:
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libwebhdfs fills a purpose that no other C library currently fills. It can be
used without the same version of Hadoop jars on the system as the server code.
While I agree that the current implementation is flawed (in particular,
HDFS-3917 is a big gap), we should have something to replace it (which is
actually ready and checked into trunk) before we remove it. It's a
self-contained piece of code and the maintenance burden is almost 0. The same
can't be said for a lot of other things in that we still keep around. -1 until
we have a replacement (which could very well be one of the native library
efforts, when they're actually ready).
> deprecate libwebhdfs in branch-2; remove from trunk
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> Key: HDFS-9047
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9047
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: webhdfs
> Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
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> This library is basically a mess:
> * It's not part of the mvn package
> * It's missing functionality and barely maintained
> * It's not in the precommit runs so doesn't get exercised regularly
> * It's not part of the unit tests (at least, that I can see)
> * It isn't documented in any official documentation
> But most importantly:
> * It fails at it's primary mission of being pure C (HDFS-3917 is STILL open)
> Let's cut our losses and just remove it.
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