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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-10378:
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This is done, right? Can we close it?
> Divide HLog interface into User and Implementor specific interfaces
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> Key: HBASE-10378
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10378
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: wal
> Reporter: Himanshu Vashishtha
> Assignee: Sean Busbey
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: 10378-1.patch, 10378-2.patch, HBASE-10378.3.patch.txt,
> HBASE-10378.4.patch.txt, HBASE-10378.5.patch.txt, HBASE-10378.addendum.patch
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> 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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