apurtell commented on a change in pull request #390: HBASE-22623 - Add RegionObserver coprocessor hook for preWALAppend URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/390#discussion_r305082184
########## File path: hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/coprocessor/RegionObserver.java ########## @@ -1104,4 +1105,18 @@ default DeleteTracker postInstantiateDeleteTracker( throws IOException { return delTracker; } + + /** + * Called just before the WAL Entry is appended to the WAL. Implementing this hook allows + * coprocessors to add extended attributes to the WALKey that then get persisted to the + * WAL, and are available to replication endpoints to use in processing WAL Entries. + * @param ctx + * @param key + * @return + * @throws IOException + */ + default WALKeyImpl preWALAppend(ObserverContext<RegionCoprocessorEnvironment> ctx, WALKeyImpl key) Review comment: This only allows change of the WAL key. What if we want to also mutate or add more cells to the WALedit? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services