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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-9681:
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bq. [Stack] Is this over-engineering?
I wanted to put this idea out there and make a concrete proposal rather than a
two line JIRA. We can wait on most of this until there are mixed major version
deployments or when we have different codec flavors to choose from. Don't you
think we could use something like this for a 1.0 for future-proofing?
bq. [Ram] The most important thing would be how we change the default behaviour
of the base class in the client and in the server. We need a mapping for this
and this mapping should be configurable.
What Ram said.
> Basic codec negotiation
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>
> Key: HBASE-9681
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9681
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: 0.98.0
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
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> Basic codec negotiation:
> There should be a default codec used for cell encoding over the RPC
> connection. This should be configurable in the site file.
> The client can optionally send a message, a manufactured "call" that would
> otherwise be invalid in some way, to the server asking for a list of
> supported cell codecs. An older server should simply send back an error
> because the request is invalid except to servers supporting this feature. A
> server supporting this feature should send back the requested information or
> an error indication if something went wrong.
> The client can optionally send a message, a manufactured "call" that would
> otherwise be invalid in some way, to the server asking for it to use a given
> codec for all further communication. Otherwise the server will continue to
> use the default codec. The server will send back a call response
> acknowledging the change or an error indication if the request cannot be
> honored.
> Server configuration should support mappings from one codec type to another.
> We need to handle the case where the server has a codec available that
> extends the requested type but overrides some behavior in the base class, and
> this is what should be used in lieu of the base type. It must also be
> possible to choose an alternate default codec which stands in for the default
> codec, is compatible with client expectations, but changes the server side
> behavior as needed in the absence of negotiation.
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