Wellington Chevreuil created HBASE-15447:
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Summary: Improve javadocs description for Delete methods
Key: HBASE-15447
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15447
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Wellington Chevreuil
Priority: Minor
Current javadoc for Delete operation is a bit confusing. Even though initial
section does describe the proper behaviour, where calling delete without
specifying timestamp will only delete records from now to the past, this is not
as clear in the method specific description
{noformat}
public Delete(byte[] row)
Create a Delete operation for the specified row.
If no further operations are done, this will delete everything associated with
the specified row (all versions of all columns in all families).
Parameters:
row - row key
{noformat}
The description can lead to the conclusion that all versions will be deleted.
But that's not true if a row has a future timestamp. Although this is a very
unusual scenario (having a future timestamp), it should still be clarified.
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