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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-12932:
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>From what I gather from the hadoop's javadocs, Stable means that we can still
>add methods to an interface between minor versions. This means that having
>Connection/Table as stable makes sense to me.
For 0.98, we can do Evolving I guess.
> [0.98] Change the interface annotation of HConnection from Public/Stable to
> Public/Evolving
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> Key: HBASE-12932
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12932
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: Andrew Purtell
> Fix For: 0.98.10
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> Attachments: HBASE-12932-0.98.patch
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> See the tail of HBASE-12859. Lars wants to add methods to HConnection. I
> suggest not because HConnection has Public/Stable annotation. Enis then says:
> {quote}
> We do not differentiate or explicitly document this, but my understanding of
> most of our InterfaceAudience.Public is for consumption, not for extending or
> implementing interfaces (except for some coprocessor cases). So I think we
> should be free to add new methods in Admin, Connection, etc in minor
> versions. I would say that in patch versions we should not do such changes.
> Maybe we can do a base classes as a convenience, but still with no guarantees.
> {quote}
> to which I reply:
> {quote}
> Shrug. So the Public/Stable annotation just means "keep this interface
> around, don't worry about changes that will break an implementor?" . Then
> what would Public/Evolving (or Unstable) mean as difference? Do we have what
> the annotations mean documented somewhere? This point didn't come up in a
> review when I backported client pushback, so now we have
> StatisticsHConnection. If it's ok to add methods to HConnection I would like
> to sink the 0.98.10 RC that has this change and fix it with a new patch/issue.
> {quote}
> I'm not sure what others think, but if we change the annotation of
> HConnection to Public/Evolving then it would make sense to allow methods to
> be added.
> I will open a subtask of this issue to nuke StatisticsHConnection if/once the
> annotation is changed. I would also sink the current 0.98.10 RC that has
> StatisticsHConnection in it so it never sees the light of day.
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