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Akira Ajisaka reassigned HADOOP-14066:
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Assignee: Akira Ajisaka
> VersionInfo should be public api
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> Key: HADOOP-14066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-14066
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: common
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
> Assignee: Akira Ajisaka
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: HADOOP-14066.01.patch
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> org.apache.hadoop.util.VersionInfo is commonly used by applications that work
> with multiple versions of Hadoop.
> In case of Hive, this is used in a shims layer to identify the version of
> hadoop and use different shim code based on version (and the corresponding
> api it supports).
> I checked Pig and Hbase as well and they also use this class to get version
> information.
> However, this method is annotated as "@private" and "@unstable".
> This code has actually been stable for long time and is widely used like a
> public api. I think we should mark it as such.
> Note that there are apis to find the version of server components in hadoop,
> however, this class necessary for finding the version of client.
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