Fix FSUtils.createTableDescriptor()
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Key: HBASE-4175
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4175
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.92.0
Reporter: Ted Yu
Currently createTableDescriptor() doesn't return anything.
The caller wouldn't know whether the descriptor is created or not. See
exception handling:
{code}
} catch(IOException ioe) {
LOG.info("IOException while trying to create tableInfo in HDFS", ioe);
}
{code}
We should return a boolean.
If the table descriptor exists already, maybe we should deserialize from hdfs
and compare with htableDescriptor argument. If they differ, I am not sure what
the proper action would be.
Maybe we can add a boolean argument, force, to createTableDescriptor(). When
force is true, existing table descriptor would be overwritten.
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