[jira] [Created] (HBASE-25912) Ban System.currentTimeMillis with a build enforcer

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

Andrew Kyle Purtell created HBASE-25912:
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             Summary: Ban System.currentTimeMillis with a build enforcer
                 Key: HBASE-25912
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25912
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: build
            Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
            Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell


We introduced EnvironmentEdgeManager a long time ago as a way to inject alternate clocks (gettimeofday() aka System.currentTimeMillis()) for unit tests. In order for this to be effective, all callers that would otherwise use System.currentTimeMillis() must call EnvironmentEdgeManager.currentTime() instead, except obviously the implementors of EnvironmentEdge.

It's common for contributors to be unaware of this practice and reviewers might not catch it.

It will be much more important to have EnvironmentEdgeManager in use where expected once we have EnvironmentEdge also providing a monotonic clock source. (See parent.)

Introduce a build enforcer that bans System.currentTimeMillis() except where annotated to allow it.



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