bq. we should not remove it directly My understanding is the same.
Cheers On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:22 PM, ashish singhi <ashish.sin...@huawei.com> wrote: > Hello to all. > > I know that we can safely remove any APIs from a InterfaceAudience.Private > class and the same is described in the HBase book. > > Now consider a case (I did not find this mentioned in our semvar), > There is a class 'A' with InterfaceAudience.Private and class 'B' with > InterfaceAudience.Public and then there is a public API in class 'B' which > returns an instance of class 'A'. (We missed to mark the public method in > class 'B' as deprecated when we marked the class 'A' as > InterfaceAudience.Private). > > Now the question is, can we remove the public APIs from class 'A' without > marking them deprecated ? > > I think we should not remove it directly, it will break the users using > these(removed) public methods from class 'A'. > P.S: This point came up in HBASE-14769. > > Regards, > Ashish Singhi >
