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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-3920:
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Note: there are some places where Mock is still needed in our code, to support
various functionality we've given first-class citizenship to for mock. This is
primarily mock-related features in MapReduce and the shell. For these things,
in order to stop using Mock and to avoid propagating up a bunch of deprecation
warnings about its continued usage, I intend to create a non-public-API class
called DeprecationUtil for use in the implementation which must remain. This
class will provide static methods which wrap the existing calls directly to
Mock, and will be responsible for suppressing deprecation warnings so that the
non-Mock code which currently depends on Mock can remain in-tact as much as
possible, until Mock is actually removed.
> Deprecate mock and cease using it in our tests
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> Key: ACCUMULO-3920
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3920
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
> Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> Numerous prior discussions have occurred, expressing a desire to deprecate
> (deprecate is not the same as remove) mock, so we can properly communicate
> its current status as a "dying" (poorly maintained, not kept up-to-date,
> lacking features) component of Accumulo. Some interest has been expressed in
> keeping it around, but no work has been put in to it to fix it's numerous
> divergences from the behavior of "real" Accumulo, add its missing features,
> or to improve its API.
> The task here is to:
> * Cease and desist using mock in our tests (replacing it with MAC, EasyMock,
> etc., as appropriate)
> * Mark mock {{@Deprecated}} until it is eventually removed in a major release
> Further discussion, if necessary, can be held later regarding its actual
> removal.
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