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Robert Chansler reassigned HADOOP-2634:
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Assignee: lohit vijayarenu
> Deprecate exists() and isDir() to simplify ClientProtocol.
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> Key: HADOOP-2634
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2634
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
> Assignee: lohit vijayarenu
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.17.0
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> ClientProtocol can be simplified by removing two methods
> {code}
> public boolean exists(String src) throws IOException;
> public boolean isDir(String src) throws IOException;
> {code}
> This is a redundant api, which can be implemented in DFSClient as convenience
> methods using
> {code}
> public DFSFileInfo getFileInfo(String src) throws IOException;
> {code}
> Note that we already deprecated several Filesystem method and advised to use
> getFileStatus() instead.
> Should we deprecate them in 0.16?
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