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Haohui Mai commented on HDFS-7207:
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Though I prefer to having a native C\+\+ interface, for the first cut I think
it is fine to implement it using the C interface and to declare the interface
as unstable. On the other hand, however, I think we also need to clean up the
interface a little bit to make it more usable for C\+\+ users.
> libhdfs3 should not expose exceptions in public C++ API
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> Key: HDFS-7207
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7207
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: HDFS-7207.001.patch
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> There are three major disadvantages of exposing exceptions in the public API:
> * Exposing exceptions in public APIs forces the downstream users to be
> compiled with {{-fexceptions}}, which might be infeasible in many use cases.
> * It forces other bindings to properly handle all C++ exceptions, which might
> be infeasible especially when the binding is generated by tools like SWIG.
> * It forces the downstream users to properly handle all C++ exceptions, which
> can be cumbersome as in certain cases it will lead to undefined behavior
> (e.g., throwing an exception in a destructor is undefined.)
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