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Chia-Ping Tsai commented on HBASE-19535:
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FYI [~stack]
> Introduce a new annotation to say there is no BC guarantee in the inheritance
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> Key: HBASE-19535
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19535
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Chia-Ping Tsai
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> We have added many Public "read-only" interface in 2.0 to save user from the
> dangerous operations. For example, TableDescriptor, ColumnFamilyDescriptor,
> Region, Store, etc. However, this change make us be hard to enhance these
> interface (ie. add the new APIs) because the BC will be broken for the user
> having the subclass of these interfaces. In contrast with Cell, Filter, and
> coprocessor, these new interfaces are NOT designed to be a extendable class
> for user but we have no explicit caveat. As I see it, it is necessary to
> introduce an new annotation to explicitly say "you CAN extend this Public
> class with the BC guarantee". On the other hand, user should not extend the
> Public classes which don't have the such annotation.
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