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Hairong Kuang commented on HADOOP-2634:
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HADOOP-2470 also discussed the unused methods in ClientProtocol. There is one 
more method that could be removed: open. 

> Hairong has addressed these inconsistencies in HADOOP-2566.
For dfs, I changed the client side to throw a FileNotFoundException. But I did 
not change the server side. It would be nice if getFileInfo in namenode also 
throw a FileNotFoundException.

> Deprecate exists() and isDir() to simplify ClientProtocol.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2634
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2634
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.15.0
>            Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
>
> ClientProtocol can be simplified by removing two methods
> {code}
> public boolean exists(String src) throws IOException;
> public boolean isDir(String src) throws IOException;
> {code}
> This is a redundant api, which can be implemented in DFSClient as convenience 
> methods using
> {code}
> public DFSFileInfo getFileInfo(String src) throws IOException;
> {code}
> Note that we already deprecated several Filesystem method and advised to use 
> getFileStatus() instead.
> Should we deprecate them in 0.16?

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