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Keith Turner commented on ACCUMULO-2590:
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bq. Do we need to make explicit that public inner classes are public API all
the way down? i.e. if an inner class has an inner class, the inner-inner class
will still be public, and so on.
That would be my expectation. Anything public or protected in an API class is
part or the API. This would include methods, variables, classes, interfaces,
and enums in the class. Did i miss anything?
> Update public API in readme to clarify what's included
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ACCUMULO-2590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2590
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: docs
> Reporter: Sean Busbey
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.6.0
>
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> Due to confusion expressed on the mailing list, edit the README section on
> the public API to make unambiguous:
> # the list of packages included (e.g. "all packages under
> org.apache.accumulo.core.client, save those named 'impl'")
> # that public Classes and Interfaces in those packages are covered
> # that within said Classes and Interfaces, we include
> ## public and protected members
> ## public and protected methods
> ## public and protected constructors
> ## public and protected inner Classes and Interfaces
> And that "compatibility" means binary compatibility as defined in the [Java
> Language Spec v3, Chapter
> 13|http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se5.0/html/binaryComp.html]
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