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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-5343:
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bq. Adding coprocessor specific methods to HBaseAdmin completely undermines the
purpose of coprocessors as optionally enabled extensions, and fails to scale as
features are added. Having HBaseAdmin be a jumble of methods related to
specific coprocessors is not very user friendly either.
I agree that we cannot throw every interface to HBaseAdmin that is implemented
as coprocessors. However, my thinking is that from the perspective of the end
user, co-processors are very-advanced API, and the client should be abstracted
away from the fact that authorization features are implemented as
co-processors. The initial reasoning behind this issue also includes the fact
that, authorization and authentication are "core" features for a database.
What about introducing HBaseSecurityAdmin under ./security, which extends
HBaseAdmin. We can also mark this interface as the stable public interface for
security related APIs.
> Access control API in HBaseAdmin.java
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> Key: HBASE-5343
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5343
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client, coprocessors, security
> Affects Versions: 0.94.0, 0.92.1
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
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> To use the access control mechanism added in HBASE-3025, users should either
> use the shell interface, or use the coprocessor API directly, which is not
> very user friendly. We can add grant/revoke/user_permission commands similar
> to the shell interface to HBaseAdmin assuming HBASE-5341 is in.
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