[jira] [Created] (HBASE-12995) Document that HConnection#getTable methods do not throw TableNotFoundException since 0.98.1

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

Andrew Purtell created HBASE-12995:
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             Summary: Document that HConnection#getTable methods do not throw TableNotFoundException since 0.98.1
                 Key: HBASE-12995
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12995
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Task
    Affects Versions: 0.98.1
            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
            Assignee: Andrew Purtell
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 0.98.11


[~jamestaylor] mentioned that recently Phoenix discovered at some point the {{HConnection#getTable}} "lightweight table reference" methods stopped throwing TableNotFoundExceptions. It used to be (in 0.94 and 0.96) that all APIs that construct HTables would check if the table is locatable and throw exceptions if not. Now, such exceptions will only be thrown at the time of the first operation submitted using the table reference, should a problem be detected then. We did a bisect and it seems this was changed in the 0.98.1 release by HBASE-10080. Since the change has now shipped in 10 in total 0.98 releases we should just document the change, in the javadoc of the HConnection class, Connection in branch-1+. 



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