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| Docker | Client=17.05.0-ce Server=17.05.0-ce Image:yetus/hbase:5d60123 |
| JIRA Issue | HBASE-18945 |
| JIRA Patch URL | 
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| Optional Tests |  asflicense  shadedjars  javac  javadoc  unit  findbugs  
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> Make a Public interface for CellComparator
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>                 Key: HBASE-18945
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18945
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>            Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>             Fix For: 2.0.0-alpha-4
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-18495.patch, HBASE-18945_2.patch, 
> HBASE-18945_3.patch, HBASE-18945_4.patch, HBASE-18945_5.patch, 
> HBASE-18945_6.patch
>
>
> Based on discussions over in HBASE-18826 and HBASE-18183 it is better we 
> expose CellComparator as a public interface so that it could be used in 
> Region/Store interfaces to be exposed to CPs.
> Currently the Comparator is exposed in Region, STore and StoreFile. There is 
> another discussion whether to expose it at all layers or only at Region. 
> However since we are exposing this to CPs CellComparator being @Private is 
> not the ideal way to do it. We have to change it to LimitedPrivate. But 
> CellComparator has lot of additional methods which are internal (like where a 
> Cell is compared with an incoming byte[] used in index comparsions etc).
> One way to expose is that as being done now in HBASE-18826 - by exposing the 
> return type as Comparator<Cell>. But this is not powerful. It only allows to 
> compare cells. So we try to expose an IA.LimitedPrivate interface that is 
> more powerful and allows comparing individual cell components also. 



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