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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-2076:
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bq. In theory, I'm fine with any fix version <= 1.7; in practice, I'm writing
utilities and applications against 1.4 and 1.5 and I absolutely intend to use
this in my own code, even if I have to refactor into an external utility class.
I think [~kturner] is rubbing off on me a little bit because the first thing I
thought about was the potential confusion over adding something like this to
the 5th bugfix release to a version of Accumulo that's already about a year old
(1.4.5). Ultimately, the current mechanism isn't *that* pedantic to use that it
necessitates us pulling back these changes everywhere IMO. As it stands, I
really would only want to see this in 1.7.0 (or whatever is "next" after 1.6.0).
In fact, I think it would be pretty swanky to be able to do something like
{{Instances.newZooKeeperInstance}} or {{Instances.newMockInstance}} and even
get into more fluent like {{Instances.newZooKeeperInstance().withClasspath()}}
or something. Making the API easier to use likely isn't something we'll get
right the first go. I'd rather sit on it for a little bit and make sure we're
all happy with it before tossing it into a release and having deprecation churn.
> Make it easier to connect to acccumulo
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2076
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2076
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Reporter: Mike Drob
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> Given a program that has {{accumulo-site.xml}} on its classpath, we should be
> able to abstract away from the user the steps for connecting to accumulo. I'm
> thinking that we need to expose something like HdfsZooInstance through the
> client API, but not exactly that, since HZI looks like it carries some extra
> functionality.
> # Determine the backing file system
> # Get Instance ID from the FS.
> # Get ZooServers from accumulo-site.xml
> # Get Instance Name from ZK.
> # Create an Instance and hand it to the user.
> If this already exists in master, then maybe we need to do a better job of
> documenting. Or a better job of educating me.
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