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Himanshu Vashishtha updated HBASE-10378:
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    Attachment: 10378-1.patch

Attaching an initial patch implementing the above mentioned changes. Please 
have a look at the overall approach. Thanks.

For testing, mvn clean test -PrunAllTests passes for both hadoop1 and hadoop2. 
Also ran the patched version on a test cluster/killing nodes and doing log 
splitting for basic sanity test. It looks good.

> Divide HLog interface into User and Implementor specific interfaces
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-10378
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10378
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: wal
>            Reporter: Himanshu Vashishtha
>         Attachments: 10378-1.patch
>
>
> HBASE-5937 introduces the HLog interface as a first step to support multiple 
> WAL implementations. This interface is a good start, but has some 
> limitations/drawbacks in its current state, such as:
> 1) There is no clear distinction b/w User and Implementor APIs, and it 
> provides APIs both for WAL users (append, sync, etc) and also WAL 
> implementors (Reader/Writer interfaces, etc). There are APIs which are very 
> much implementation specific (getFileNum, etc) and a user such as a 
> RegionServer shouldn't know about it.
> 2) There are about 14 methods in FSHLog which are not present in HLog 
> interface but are used at several places in the unit test code. These tests 
> typecast HLog to FSHLog, which makes it very difficult to test multiple WAL 
> implementations without doing some ugly checks.
> I'd like to propose some changes in HLog interface that would ease the multi 
> WAL story:
> 1) Have two interfaces WAL and WALService. WAL provides APIs for 
> implementors. WALService provides APIs for users (such as RegionServer).
> 2) A skeleton implementation of the above two interface as the base class for 
> other WAL implementations (AbstractWAL). It provides required fields for all 
> subclasses (fs, conf, log dir, etc). Make a minimal set of test only methods 
> and add this set in AbstractWAL.
> 3) HLogFactory returns a WALService reference when creating a WAL instance; 
> if a user need to access impl specific APIs (there are unit tests which get 
> WAL from a HRegionServer and then call impl specific APIs), use AbstractWAL 
> type casting,
> 4) Make TestHLog abstract and let all implementors provide their respective 
> test class which extends TestHLog (TestFSHLog, for example).



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