[jira] [Updated] (ACCUMULO-751) Support Wire Compatability

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

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Christopher Tubbs updated ACCUMULO-751:
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          Component/s: thrift
               Labels: api compatibility versioning wire wireprotocol  (was: )
             Priority: Critical  (was: Major)
    Affects Version/s: 1.4.0
    
> Support Wire Compatability
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>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-751
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-751
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: master, thrift, tserver
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Mike Drob
>            Assignee: Eric Newton
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: api, compatibility, versioning, wire, wireprotocol
>
> With the advent of the HA NameNode in HDFS, the need for planned Hadoop outages has greatly diminished. I believe that Accumulo should follow suit and eventually allow for no-outage upgrades.
> To support this feature, we would require wire compatibility between different versions so that the cluster can continue to function in a mixed state. There are already contingencies for master fail-over and tservers to leave/join the cluster, so I think this is a natural extension of that code.
> To accomplish this for bugfix releases should be trivial. I think it is only necessary to remove (or relax) the version check that happens when a tserver attempts to join. There are rarely (never?) changes to the thrift protocol between bugfix releases, so theoretically a 1.4.1 tserver is already compatible with a 1.4.0 master and vice versa.
> To maintain compatibility in the face of thrift protocol changes is certainly a harder challenge, which might be best reserved for a separate ticket.

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