[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-3181) VolumeChooser usage doesn't always comply with implied API contract

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Christopher Tubbs created ACCUMULO-3181:
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             Summary: VolumeChooser usage doesn't always comply with implied API contract
                 Key: ACCUMULO-3181
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3181
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.6.1, 1.6.0
            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
             Fix For: 1.6.2, 1.7.0


The VolumeChooser interface accepts a String array of "options" to choose from. This method has no javadoc to explicitly declare what "options" mean, but given the name of the class, and its intended purpose, derived from its usage, it appears that the Strings it receives should represent volumes.

However, some of the current usage is a bit lax in its parameter passing. In some cases, what is passed are not volumes at all, but volumes concatenated with some path. This works for the RandomVolumeChooser provided, but it should not be expected to work for any arbitrary implementation.

The use of this API should consider the parameter to strictly be an array of volumes (or Strings, representing volumes), since it's not a "PathChooser". Any concatenation of path elements should be done outside the chooser, so we can define the API contract explicitly. That means that some of the current usage should be altered to concatenate path elements after the choose method returns.



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