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Colin Patrick McCabe updated HDFS-7207:
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Description: We should consider adding a C\+\+ interface for libhdfs,
libhdfs3, and libwebhdfs. This interface should not impose unreasonable
compatibility constraints on the libraries, and should be useful for many C\+\+
projects in order to be useful. We may also want to avoid exceptions because
some C\+\+ clients do not use them. (was: 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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Priority: Major (was: Blocker)
Issue Type: Improvement (was: Bug)
> Consider adding a C++ API for libhdfs, libhdfs3, and libwebhdfs
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> Key: HDFS-7207
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7207
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Haohui Mai
> Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Attachments: HDFS-7207.001.patch
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> We should consider adding a C\+\+ interface for libhdfs, libhdfs3, and
> libwebhdfs. This interface should not impose unreasonable compatibility
> constraints on the libraries, and should be useful for many C\+\+ projects in
> order to be useful. We may also want to avoid exceptions because some C\+\+
> clients do not use them.
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