[jira] [Created] (HBASE-12979) Use setters instead of return values for handing back statistics from HRegion methods

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

Andrew Purtell created HBASE-12979:
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             Summary: Use setters instead of return values for handing back statistics from HRegion methods
                 Key: HBASE-12979
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12979
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 0.98.10
            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
            Assignee: Andrew Purtell


In HBASE-5162 (and backports such as HBASE-12729) we modified some HRegion methods to return statistics for consumption by callers. The statistics are ultimately passed back to the client as load feedback.

[~lhofhansl] thinks returning this information is a weird mix of concerns. This also produced a difficult to anticipate binary compatibility issue with Phoenix. There was no compile time issue because the code of course was not structured to assign from a method returning void, yet the method signature changes so the JVM cannot resolve it if older Phoenix binaries are installed into a 0.98.10 release. Let's change the HRegion methods back to returning 'void' and use setters instead. Officially we don't support use of HRegion (HBASE-12566) but we do not need to go out of our way to break things (smile) so I would also like to make a patch release containing just this change to help out our sister project.



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