[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-2589) Create new client API

["William Slacum (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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William Slacum commented on ACCUMULO-2589:
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For anything like buffer sizes or timeouts (anything with a unit), I've been using the [Amount|http://twitter.github.io/commons/apidocs/index.html#com.twitter.common.quantity.Amount] class from [twitter commons|http://twitter.github.io/commons/]. Being able to specify units as part of the type (ie, {{Amount<Long, Time.Milliseconds> timeout}} vs {{long timeoutMS}}) has been a huge win. I'd be nice to use that when doing something like configuring a batch writer.

> Create new client API
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-2589
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2589
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 2.0.0
>
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> There are many issues with the current client API, and we've had a lot of lessons learned that could be incorporated into a new one.
> Some of the issues this would address:
> * questions like "What is considered 'Public API'?"
> * automated testing for incompatible API changes
> * provide better support for alternative implementations of pluggable features
> * distinguish between compile-time dependencies and runtime dependencies
> * consistent exception handling
> * consistent/symmetric getters/setters
> * well-defined resource lifecycles
> * better resource management
> * simpler entry point to communicate with Accumulo
> * better support for client-side configuration management
> * logical layout of first class Accumulo objects in the API (Table, User, Scan, Connection)
> Some of these goal may evolve during the development of this feature, and many previously identified issues can be moved to sub-tasks of this one. This ticket is intended to cover the overall feature, but the details will be handled in sub-tasks.



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