LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Wittenauer
I have some concerns over the recent usage of LimitedPrivate being opened up to HBase. Shouldn't HBase really be sticking to public APIs rather than poking through some holes? If HBase needs an API, wouldn't other clients as well?

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wittenauer a...@apache.org wrote: I have some concerns over the recent usage of LimitedPrivate being opened up to HBase. Shouldn't HBase really be sticking to public APIs rather than poking through some holes? If HBase needs an API, wouldn't

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Todd Lipcon wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wittenauer a...@apache.org wrote: I have some concerns over the recent usage of LimitedPrivate being opened up to HBase. Shouldn't HBase really be sticking to public APIs rather than poking

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Stack wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Allen Wittenauer a...@apache.org wrote: I have some concerns over the recent usage of LimitedPrivate being opened up to HBase. Shouldn't HBase really be sticking to public APIs rather than poking through

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Andrew Purtell wrote: Perhaps opening a jira for a cleaner framework for HttpServer extension could be useful? Sure. That's probably what should have happened to begin with rather than the quickly changing the API to a different classification. I was a

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Allen Wittenauer a...@apache.org wrote: On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: Or because this is the sort of thing that could take weeks of discussion or just 5 minutes to unblock HBase from moving on to trunk. I'd rather have the weeks of

Re: LimitedPrivate and HBase

2011-06-06 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: Let's face it: this happened because it was HBase. If it was almost anyone else, it would have sat there and *that's* the point where I'm mainly concerned. If you want to feel better, take a look at HDFS-941, HDFS-347, and