Github user joshelser commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/256#discussion_r115285384
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/file/blockfile/cache/BlockCache.java
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@@ -17,10 +17,30 @@
*/
package org.apache.accumulo.core.file.blockfile.cache;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.conf.AccumuloConfiguration;
+
/**
* Block cache interface.
*/
public interface BlockCache {
+
+ /**
+ * Start the block cache
+ *
+ * @param conf
+ * Accumulo configuration object
+ * @param maxSize
+ * maximum size of the on-heap cache
+ * @param blockSize
+ * size of the default RFile blocks
+ */
+ void start(AccumuloConfiguration conf, long maxSize, long blockSize)
throws Exception;
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If `Exception` is just being caught and re-thrown as RTE, isn't it cleaner
to just removes the `throws` here and inform, via javadoc, implementations
should throw an RTE if they cannot start successfully?
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