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Duo Zhang commented on HBASE-21246: ----------------------------------- Why we have a getSize in WALIdentity? And do we want to introduce some structures in the WALIdentity? If not, why not just use a String? You introduced a method which creates a WALIdentity from a String, then why not just use String as the identity? > Introduce WALIdentity interface > ------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-21246 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21246 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Ted Yu > Assignee: Ted Yu > Priority: Major > Attachments: 21246.HBASE-20952.001.patch > > > We are introducing WALIdentity interface so that the WAL representation can > be decoupled from distributed filesystem. > The interface provides getName method whose return value can represent > filename in distributed filesystem environment or, the name of the stream > when the WAL is backed by log stream. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)