Understood, but I hope my clarification helped to rectify that. I was not in any way claiming REST is not current, but merely was commenting on the fact that the thread had drifted off into a general PB or not discussion. I still believe Thrift2 is the way to go forward and will work on it. I have started looking at the JIRAs, but they are not very conclusive:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=-4&jql=project%20%3D%20HBASE%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Thrift%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20ORDER%20BY%20createdDate%20DESC I was wondering if someone knows what the known issues are. But I can work through that list and check the Thrift2 API against the client API to see what is amiss. Lars On May 3, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I didn't take offence, but it's a false equivalency. > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No Andy, I was just saying, if we remove Thrift2 for a PB backed gateway, >> then we could as well remove them all. REST was just an example. No offence >> meant. >> >> Lars >> >> On May 3, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> We don't have a proper REST API? Please provide more detail on what you >>> think is lacking. The status of Thrift2 and REST are the same? The REST >> API >>> is not actively maintained? >>> >>> On Friday, May 3, 2013, Lars George wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jimmy, >>>> >>>> Inline... >>>> >>>> On Apr 25, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Jimmy Xiang <jxi...@cloudera.com >> <javascript:;>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> At first, I am +1 for removing it. We had a similar discussion before, >>>> and >>>>> didn't pull the plug because of Tim's comment: >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/201212.mbox/%3ccae9mebbh7v1phsbegtepbxg1h5drbs+ydvyo0akdr1d4jce...@mail.gmail.com%3E >>>> >>>> I am with Tim here (it was me that pushed Tim to complete this work in >> the >>>> first place). >>>> >>>>> To me, instead of complete and maintain Thrift2, it will be much better >>>> to >>>>> come up a new one since we are on PB now. >>>> >>>> That is independent if you ask me. We should have a proper Thrift one, >>>> same with REST. Or do you want to toss out REST as well since we now >> have >>>> PB RPCs? >>>> >>>> I am willing to work and maintain Thrift2, I said that before. This >> thread >>>> though got derailed in general wishful thinking, so could we please >> maybe >>>> vote if we want Thrift and more especially Thrift2. Because we either >> throw >>>> out Thrift in total for PB or maintain it for the time being. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Lars >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Jimmy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org >> <javascript:;> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'm glad someone has stepped forward to be an active responsive >>>> maintainer >>>>>> of this piece of code. Maintenance is one issue, actual usage is >>>> another. >>>>>> Does anyone actually use this? What is the plan for Thrift? Do we >>>> continue >>>>>> with both interfaces through one or more subsequent versions? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com >> <javascript:;> >>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I am -1 to remove, took a long time to get it in there and should >>>>>>> deprecate Thrift v1 - or else we are in the same mess as mapred and >>>>>>> mapreduce is. We once replaced the entire client API and now we can't >>>> do >>>>>>> this for Thrift? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am happy to work on v2 and fix or maintain it. It should be the way >>>>>>> forward methinks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Lars >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 21:53, Stack <st...@duboce.net <javascript:;>> >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thrift2 was supposed to be the future -- an API like the native java >>>>>> API >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> but it never got the support needed to make it a superset of >> thrift1. >>>>>>>> Meantime folks are running thrift1 in production and patching it as >>>>>> they >>>>>>>> need extra calls and fixes. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> While we have two thrifts, thrift1 and thrift2, the latter of which >> we >>>>>>> are >>>>>>>> afraid to recommend because we do not know of any prod install, we >> sew >>>>>>>> confusion ("Which should I use?", "Doc only talks about >> 'thrift'?"). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> HBASE-8184 is a patch to remove thrift2 until it gets a sponsor who >>>> can >>>>>>>> move it beyond thrift1 . I already have a +1 to remove. Will let >> the >>>>>>>> issue stew a day or two in case objection to thrift2 going away. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> St.Ack >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> - Andy >>>>>> >>>>>> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet >> Hein >>>>>> (via Tom White) >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> >>> - Andy >>> >>> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein >>> (via Tom White) >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White)
