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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-11657:
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I've made HRL private in an earlier patch that introduced RegionLocations
class. The idea was to make regions transparent to users because they can
change, not specific to HRL per se. With the introduction of RegionLocations
and HBASE-10070 work, there can be more than one location for a region together
with different replica_ids associated with regions. I did not want to expose
those as the public API, but we can revisit that decision if we want.
> Put HTable region methods in an interface
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>
> Key: HBASE-11657
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11657
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 0.99.0
> Reporter: Carter
> Assignee: Carter
> Fix For: 0.99.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE_11657.patch, HBASE_11657_v2.patch,
> HBASE_11657_v3.patch, HBASE_11657_v3.patch, HBASE_11657_v4.patch
>
>
> Most of the HTable methods are now abstracted by HTableInterface, with the
> notable exception of the following methods that pertain to region metadata:
> {code}
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final String row)
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final byte [] row)
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final byte [] row, boolean reload)
> byte [][] getStartKeys()
> byte[][] getEndKeys()
> Pair<byte[][],byte[][]> getStartEndKeys()
> void clearRegionCache()
> {code}
> and a default scope method which maybe should be bundled with the others:
> {code}
> List<RegionLocations> listRegionLocations()
> {code}
> Since the consensus seems to be that these would muddy HTableInterface with
> non-core functionality, where should it go? MapReduce looks up the region
> boundaries, so it needs to be exposed somewhere.
> Let me throw out a straw man to start the conversation. I propose:
> {code}
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HRegionInterface
> {code}
> Have HTable implement this interface. Also add these methods to HConnection:
> {code}
> HRegionInterface getTableRegion(TableName tableName)
> HRegionInterface getTableRegion(TableName tableName, ExecutorService pool)
> {code}
> [~stack], [~ndimiduk], [~enis], thoughts?
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