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[jira] [Updated] (HDFS-6984) In Hadoop 3, make FileStatus serialize
itself via protobuf
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Andrew Wang updated HDFS-6984:
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Attachment: HDFS-6984.nowritable.patch
Here's the sample patch I used to remove Writable.
> In Hadoop 3, make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf
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> Key: HDFS-6984
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6984
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha1
> Reporter: Colin P. McCabe
> Assignee: Colin P. McCabe
> Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
> Attachments: HDFS-6984.001.patch, HDFS-6984.002.patch, HDFS-6984.003.patch, HDFS-6984.nowritable.patch
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> FileStatus was a Writable in Hadoop 2 and earlier. Originally, we used this to serialize it and send it over the wire. But in Hadoop 2 and later, we have the protobuf {{HdfsFileStatusProto}} which serves to serialize this information. The protobuf form is preferable, since it allows us to add new fields in a backwards-compatible way. Another issue is that already a lot of subclasses of FileStatus don't override the Writable methods of the superclass, breaking the interface contract that read(status.write) should be equal to the original status.
> In Hadoop 3, we should just make FileStatus serialize itself via protobuf so that we don't have to deal with these issues. It's probably too late to do this in Hadoop 2, since user code may be relying on the existing FileStatus serialization there.
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