make locator pluggable/abstract
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Key: CASSANDRA-3834
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3834
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Core
Reporter: Peter Schuller
Make the locator pluggable, such that we can use something other than
gissip to discover ring topology.
This is in part for CASSANDRA-3833, but is also useful because we want
something simpler and more reliable than gossip on production
clusters. At minimum we must be able to hit our nodes with a clue bat
in emergencies ("no this node is NOT in state Normal damn it"), even if
we were to normally rely on gossip.
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