Well reflections are good or not will drag this somewhere else. I will respect what Tsz-Wo said and put this in my rule book for future :)
If I get into Why we don’t have “all” the API in FileSystem itself will drag it to another area, What and where to use Abstraction and stuff like that, Which none of the people over here would be interested in. On a conclusive note: Using Reflections at Hbase from us at Hadoop isn’t suggested as Tsz-Wo considers it as a hack. I have strict objections on pulling them up to FileSystem class because they are very core to HDFS and the mentioned API are not just the ones, ErasureCoding? And Tomorrow we would have similar requests for ABFS only API, Huawei OBS only and many more. FileSystem class would become huge and the Technical Debt that we would bring in or encourage would be really high. Who is gonna chase behind people if these code creates issues somewhere else? I don’t want to quote example publicly and proove a point or so. So, leaving this here. With my conclusion on this solution. Technically it is a HBase problem, they should adapt to Ozone, not sure why are they creating unnecessary sound. I got into similar situation for Ozone in a different downstream project and folks were very encouraging to get and add support for Ozone, Guava messed up else it would have been in. Now with this approach those guys won’t even agree. “Go handle at Hadoop or Ozone, Why us”, this is something neither of the projects want…. There were mention of favoured node and all as well in the Hbase ML, after this would be these stuff, IIRC. The proposal for having option for favoured node in Distcp was vetoed recently considering it HDFS only (not by me), so thats never ending…. We at Hadoop are discussing and trying to negotiate for Hbase and Ozone 🤷♂️, When in past ViewDFS was also done at HDFS for same use case, I think now people don’t consider it as a solution and we will keep on doing stuff for Hbase and then other folks will keep on managing, maintaining and releasing them forever!!! Good Luck!!! But 2 possible solutions are down in this thread -Ayush On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 at 7:48 AM, Tsz Wo Sze <szets...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ayush, > > > Yes, reflections are a part of Java. Why we have to define the > FileSystem APIs but not simply use reflections all the times? > > > Reflection is good for dealing with unknown code such as loading a plugin, > code analysis, etc. However, it probably is not a good way to define APIs. > > > > Tsz-Wo > > > On Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 01:00:20 PM GMT+8, Ayush Saxena < > ayush...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am not sure what classifies as a Hack and what not, I thought reflections > are part of Java. > > Whatever solution but pulling in just the HDFS specific stuff to FileSystem > just for Ozone, because Hbase guys didn’t agree and we have people in > Hadoop who we can convince, I am -1 to such an approach and mindset. Hbase > wants ozone, they should give way for it like they do for HDFS > > Explore ways in Hbase, explore the Utils and ways by the links that Steve > shared, try ViewDFS, When we have some more convincing reasons, we can > discuss more over here to pull them to FileSystem as the last option > > -Ayush > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 2:26 AM, Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Stephen and I are working on a project to make HBase to run on Ozone. > > > > HBase, born out of the Hadoop project, depends on a number of HDFS > specific > > APIs, including recoverLease() and isInSafeMode(). The HBase community > [1] > > strongly voiced that they don't want the project to have direct > dependency > > on additional FS implementations due to dependency and vulnerability > > management concerns. > > > > To make this project successful, we're exploring options, to push up > these > > APIs to the FileSystem abstraction. Eventually, it would make HBase FS > > implementation agnostic, and perhaps enable HBase to support other > storage > > systems in the future. > > > > We'd use the PathCapabilities API to probe if the underlying FS > > implementation supports these APIs, and would then invoke the > corresponding > > FileSystem APIs. This is straightforward but the FileSystem would become > > bloated. > > > > Another option is to create a "RecoverableFileSystem" interface, and have > > both DistributedFileSystem (HDFS) and RootedOzoneFileSystem (Ozone). This > > way the impact to the Hadoop project and the FileSystem abstraction is > even > > smaller. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/tcrp8vxxs3z12y36mpzx35txhpp7tvxv > > >
