[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-4424) Provide a means for coprocessors to create tables for internal use

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

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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-4424:
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There is already checkTableModifiable() in MasterServices.
Adding one more table related method shouldn't hurt.

> Provide a means for coprocessors to create tables for internal use
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-4424
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4424
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: coprocessors
>            Reporter: Gary Helmling
>
> When developing access controls as a coprocessor, we needed to create an internal "_acl_" table for persisting the permission grants.  We could have done this in the coprocessor through HBaseAdmin, but it seems silly to go through an RPC loop when we're already implementing a MasterObserver running on HMaster.
> So the simplest approach was to expose createTable() in MasterServices:
> {code}
>   /**
>    * Create a table using the given table definition.
>    * @param desc The table definition
>    * @param splitKeys Starting row keys for the initial table regions.  If null
>    *     a single region is created.
>    * @param sync If true, waits for all initial regions to be assigned before
>    *     returning
>    */
>   public void createTable(HTableDescriptor desc, byte [][] splitKeys)
>       throws IOException;
> {code}
> Other coprocessor implementations will likely have similar needs, so I propose we add this to MasterServices.
> The alternative would be to expose some sort of HBaseAdmin like interface via MasterCoprocessorEnvironment, similar to what we do for HTable, but this would be a fair bit more work, and I still think we'll need a way to provide this capability in the short term.

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