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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-2597:
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agree that HTD and HCD could use come improvement.  Unsure about SF.  Shouldn't 
be many of these bigger changes like what blooms had to introduce though I feel 
your pain.

> Use "Builder" pattern instead of many-argument constructors
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2597
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2597
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Todd Lipcon
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
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> We've got a lot of objects that have a ton of different constructors with a 
> huge number of parameters. Whenever we add a new parameter, existing callers 
> break, and it's sometimes difficult to keep track of which booleans/nulls 
> correspond to which parameter.
> I'd like to consider moving to the "Builder" pattern in some of these cases. 
> See 
> http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/MapMaker.html
>  for an example of this pattern in action. Another good example is the 
> builder API generated by protocol buffers (search for "builder" on 
> http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/javatutorial.html )
> I think this pattern makes code more readable and also allows us to more 
> easily change around the number of arguments in our constructors.

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