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ramkrishna.s.vasudevan commented on HBASE-4175:
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@Ted,
I was anlysing the createTableDescriptor() api. We will be needing a return
type to know whether table creating was successful or not.
{noformat}
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.
{noformat}
Once we return a boolean to say whether table creation is successful or not
is there any way to get the same table with same descriptor details. Because we
say TableAlreadyExists if we try getting the same table creation command.
Pls correct me on my understanding if am wrong. And if you could give me more
clarity to proceed on the defect.
> 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
> Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
>
> 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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