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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-2318:
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The principle for the previous behavior, prior to this ticket, was, by analogy
that "Rename Christopher Tubbs to Michael" was intuitive enough, and that one
shouldn't have to say "Rename Christopher Tubbs to Michael Tubbs". Likewise,
the first parameter could be fully-qualified, because it needed enough
information to identify the table to change, and the second parameter was
simply the new name to give the identified table (not a new
location/namespace... simply a new name).
I feel it's non-intuitive that a rename doesn't just update the name of the
table, but might also move it. By expecting unqualified names, it's clear that
this behavior is not possible, but we also allowed fully-qualified names, as
long as it was referring to the same namespace, so users weren't surprised if
they always used fully-qualified names.
So, I'm not convinced this was any more intuitive than the documented behavior,
but I'm not strongly tied to either one, as far as intuitive-ness. However, it
was made quite clear in the javadoc how it was expected to work, and the
previous implementation followed the documented behavior. It now no longer
does. If this change is acceptable, then it needs a corresponding javadoc
update.
> Renaming table don't require namespace
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> Key: ACCUMULO-2318
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2318
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: client
> Reporter: John Vines
> Assignee: John Vines
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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> If you rename a table, the old table name must be fully qualified. But the
> destination table does not require the namespace prefix. First of all, this
> doesn't seem intuitive. Secondly, it will makes things monumentally difficult
> should we support renaming across namespaces.
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