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Bob Hansen commented on HDFS-8766:
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[~James Clampffer] - re: namespaces - I think that the FileHandle and
FileSystem will grow to become the primary C++ API, so they should just be in
the hdfs namespace. Perhaps they should live in the lib/fs/ directory.
> Implement a libhdfs(3) compatible API
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>
> Key: HDFS-8766
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8766
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: hdfs-client
> Reporter: James Clampffer
> Assignee: James Clampffer
> Attachments: HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.000.patch,
> HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.001.patch, HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.002.patch,
> HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.003.patch, HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.004.patch,
> HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.005.patch, HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.006.patch,
> HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.007.patch, HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.008.patch,
> HDFS-8766.HDFS-8707.009.patch
>
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> Add a synchronous API that is compatible with the hdfs.h header used in
> libhdfs and libhdfs3. This will make it possible for projects using
> libhdfs/libhdfs3 to relink against libhdfspp with minimal changes.
> This also provides a pure C interface that can be linked against projects
> that aren't built in C++11 mode for various reasons but use the same
> compiler. It also allows many other programming languages to access
> libhdfspp through builtin FFI interfaces.
> The libhdfs API is very similar to the posix file API which makes it easier
> for programs built using posix filesystem calls to be modified to access HDFS.
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