[jira] [Created] (HBASE-11879) Change TableInputFormatBase to take interface arguments

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

Carter created HBASE-11879:
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             Summary: Change TableInputFormatBase to take interface arguments
                 Key: HBASE-11879
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11879
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Carter
            Assignee: Carter


As part of the ongoing interface abstraction work, I'm now investigating {{TableInputFormatBase}}, which has two methods that break encapsulation:

{code}
protected HTable getHTable();
protected void setHTable(HTable table);
{code}

While these are protected methods, the base @InterfaceAudience.Public is abstract, meaning that it supports extension by user code.

I propose deprecating these two methods and replacing them with these four, once the Table interface is merged:

{code}
protected Table getTable();
protected void setTable(Table table);
protected RegionLocator getRegionLocator();
protected void setRegionLocator(RegionLocator regionLocator);
{code}

Since users will frequently call {{setTable}} and {{setRegionLocator}} together, it probably also makes sense to add the following convenience method:

{code}
protected void setTableAndRegionLocator(Table table, RegionLocator regionLocator);
{code}




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