Github user keith-turner commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/29#discussion_r28822844
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minicluster/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/minicluster/MiniAccumuloConfig.java
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@@ -108,6 +108,19 @@ public MiniAccumuloConfig setZooKeeperStartupTime(long
zooKeeperStartupTime) {
}
/**
+ * Configure an existing ZooKeeper instance to use. Calling this method
is optional. If not set, a new ZooKeeper instance is created.
+ *
+ * @param existingZooKeepers
+ * Connection string for a already-running ZooKeeper instance
+ *
+ * @since 1.7.0
+ */
+ public MiniAccumuloConfig setExistingZooKeepers(String
existingZooKeepers) {
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> I'm used to seeing a note on Javadoc which states when a setter is
overloaded. Personally, that's sufficient.
Since its really easy to do, I think structuring the API to fail fast would
be better. It avoids one case of strange failures deep in MAC that are
possibly hard to debug.
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