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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-4046:
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bq. It shouldn't as long as the enum ordering does not change.
Kihwal, my question was meant to say the change is backward compatible :-)

I would suggest adding the enum name or prefix based on the context at the 
beginning like say STATUS_SUCCESS etc. 
                
> ChecksumTypeProto use NULL as enum value which is illegal in C/C++
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-4046
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4046
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Binglin Chang
>            Assignee: Binglin Chang
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: HDFS-4046-ChecksumType-NULL-and-TestAuditLogs-bug.patch, 
> HDFS-4046-ChecksumType-NULL.patch
>
>
> I tried to write a native hdfs client using protobuf based protocol, when I 
> generate c++ code using hdfs.proto, the generated file can not compile, 
> because NULL is an already defined macro.
> I am thinking two solutions:
> 1. refactor all DataChecksum.Type.NULL references to NONE, which should be 
> fine for all languages, but this may breaking compatibility.
> 2. only change protobuf definition ChecksumTypeProto.NULL to NONE, and use 
> enum integer value(DataChecksum.Type.id) to convert between ChecksumTypeProto 
> and DataChecksum.Type, and make sure enum integer values are match(currently 
> already match).
> I can make a patch for solution 2.
>  

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