Appy created HBASE-17652: ---------------------------- Summary: Use 'default' keyword in Observer interfaces to get rid of 'Base...Observer' implementations. Key: HBASE-17652 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17652 Project: HBase Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Appy Assignee: Appy
In cases where one might need to use multiple observers, say region, master and regionserver; and the fact that only one class can be extended, it gives rise to following pattern: public class BaseMasterAndRegionObserver extends BaseRegionObserver implements MasterObserver class AccessController extends BaseMasterAndRegionObserver implements RegionServerObserver were BaseMasterAndRegionObserver is full copy of BaseMasterObserver. There is an example of simple case too where the current design fails. Say only one observer is needed by the coprocessor, but the design doesn't permit extending even that single observer (see RSGroupAdminEndpoint), that leads to copy of full Bas e...Observer class into coprocessor class leading to 1000s of lines of code and this ugly mix of 5 main functions with 100 useless functions. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)