(forwarding to common-dev which is where this discussion about APIs should
go)
1. FileSystem API may add new methods from version to version. There's
some list operation that's gone in too.
2. I don't think there are any guarantees that we don't add new methods
to a base class -it's w
For context - It appears that over time the FileSystem has changed the
signature to the "createNonRecursive" method, (in 2.x there are 3
signatures, in 1.x, there are 2 signatures).
[root@jvyas hadoop-common]# git checkout branch-1.1
Switched to branch 'branch-1.1'
[root@jvyas hadoop-common]# grep
Jay, this is is more a common-dev question, as it goes beyond hdfs
On 31 May 2013 02:07, Jay Vyas wrote:
> Hi :
>
> Are FileSystem interfaces gauranteed to retain semantics of the old
> FileSystem contract?
>
retain the explicit semantics, yes. Implementations may change some
implementation det
Hi :
Are FileSystem interfaces gauranteed to retain semantics of the old
FileSystem contract?
Im noticing that the new FileSystem uses the "CreateFlag" class, which
older ones did not, and I'm wondering wether the deprecation of some
FileSystem methods (i.e. createNonRecursive) will eventually be
