[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-11657) Put HTable region methods in an interface

["Nick Dimiduk (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-11657:
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For another straw man, how about extracting these from HTable and non-DDL methods from Admin, making a location services class? Call it {{MetaClient}} or {{LocationServices}} or something.

> Put HTable region methods in an interface
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-11657
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11657
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 0.99.0
>            Reporter: Carter
>            Assignee: Carter
>             Fix For: 0.99.0
>
>
> Most of the HTable methods are now abstracted by HTableInterface, with the notable exception of the following methods that pertain to region metadata:
> {code}
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final String row)
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final byte [] row)
> HRegionLocation getRegionLocation(final byte [] row, boolean reload)
> byte [][] getStartKeys()
> byte[][] getEndKeys()
> Pair<byte[][],byte[][]> getStartEndKeys()
> void clearRegionCache()
> {code}
> and a default scope method which maybe should be bundled with the others:
> {code}
> List<RegionLocations> listRegionLocations()
> {code}
> Since the consensus seems to be that these would muddy HTableInterface with non-core functionality, where should it go?  MapReduce looks up the region boundaries, so it needs to be exposed somewhere.
> Let me throw out a straw man to start the conversation.  I propose:
> {code}
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HRegionInterface
> {code}
> Have HTable implement this interface.  Also add these methods to HConnection:
> {code}
> HRegionInterface getTableRegion(TableName tableName)
> HRegionInterface getTableRegion(TableName tableName, ExecutorService pool)
> {code}
> [~stack], [~ndimiduk], [~enis], thoughts?



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