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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com> on 2015/01/13 22:47:13 UTC
InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Hey guys,
I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java)
and InterfaceAudience (
https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java)
classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in the
last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
stable?
-Abe
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com>.
Change from Private to Contract might not be an issue. Change from Public
to Contract might be incompatible behavior irrespective of whether
InterfaceAudience is evolving or stable.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com> wrote:
>
> It may work fine from a code perspective, but from a semantic
> and/or human perspective, I think it’d be confusing and could lead to
> problems down the road. Let’s say we add Contract after making this
> Stable. If we change any Private’s to Contracts as a result, is that a
> break?
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Chris Nauroth <cn...@hortonworks.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Would it really be backwards-incompatible if we added new levels later?
> > That seems counter-intuitive and contrary to this piece of documentation:
> >
> > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-13.html#jls-13.5.7
> >
> > Quoting:
> >
> > Annotation types behave exactly like any other interface. Adding or
> > removing an element from an annotation type is analogous to adding or
> > removing a method. There are important considerations governing other
> > changes to annotation types, but these have no effect on the linkage of
> > binaries by the Java Virtual Machine. Rather, such changes affect the
> > behavior of reflective APIs that manipulate annotations. The
> documentation
> > of these APIs specifies their behavior when various changes are made to
> the
> > underlying annotation types.
> >
> > Adding or removing annotations has no effect on the correct linkage of
> the
> > binary representations of programs in the Java programming language.
> >
> > Certainly removing existing levels would be backwards-incompatible.
> >
> > Chris Nauroth
> > Hortonworks
> > http://hortonworks.com/
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> IIRC, it was marked as evolving because it wasn’t clear at the
> >> time whether we would need to add more stability levels. (One of the key
> >> inspirations for the stability levels—Sun’s ARC process—had more.)
> >>
> >> So I think it’s important to remember that if this gets changed
> to
> >> stable, that effectively means it new levels can’t really get added...
> >>
> >> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
> >> marked
> >>> as Evolving :)
> >>> @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> >>> public class InterfaceStability {...}
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> +1
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hey guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> >>>>> )
> >>>>> and InterfaceAudience (
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> >>>>> )
> >>>>> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much
> in
> >>>> the
> >>>>> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them
> as
> >>>>> stable?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Abe
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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--------------------------------------------
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Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com>.
It may work fine from a code perspective, but from a semantic and/or human perspective, I think it’d be confusing and could lead to problems down the road. Let’s say we add Contract after making this Stable. If we change any Private’s to Contracts as a result, is that a break?
On Jan 15, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Chris Nauroth <cn...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> Would it really be backwards-incompatible if we added new levels later?
> That seems counter-intuitive and contrary to this piece of documentation:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-13.html#jls-13.5.7
>
> Quoting:
>
> Annotation types behave exactly like any other interface. Adding or
> removing an element from an annotation type is analogous to adding or
> removing a method. There are important considerations governing other
> changes to annotation types, but these have no effect on the linkage of
> binaries by the Java Virtual Machine. Rather, such changes affect the
> behavior of reflective APIs that manipulate annotations. The documentation
> of these APIs specifies their behavior when various changes are made to the
> underlying annotation types.
>
> Adding or removing annotations has no effect on the correct linkage of the
> binary representations of programs in the Java programming language.
>
> Certainly removing existing levels would be backwards-incompatible.
>
> Chris Nauroth
> Hortonworks
> http://hortonworks.com/
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> IIRC, it was marked as evolving because it wasn’t clear at the
>> time whether we would need to add more stability levels. (One of the key
>> inspirations for the stability levels—Sun’s ARC process—had more.)
>>
>> So I think it’s important to remember that if this gets changed to
>> stable, that effectively means it new levels can’t really get added...
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
>> marked
>>> as Evolving :)
>>> @InterfaceStability.Evolving
>>> public class InterfaceStability {...}
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
>>>>> )
>>>>> and InterfaceAudience (
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
>>>>> )
>>>>> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in
>>>> the
>>>>> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
>>>>> stable?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Abe
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>.
Agreed. Any one interested in reviewing/committing
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11476?
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Chris Nauroth <cn...@hortonworks.com>
wrote:
> Would it really be backwards-incompatible if we added new levels later?
> That seems counter-intuitive and contrary to this piece of documentation:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-13.html#jls-13.5.7
>
> Quoting:
>
> Annotation types behave exactly like any other interface. Adding or
> removing an element from an annotation type is analogous to adding or
> removing a method. There are important considerations governing other
> changes to annotation types, but these have no effect on the linkage of
> binaries by the Java Virtual Machine. Rather, such changes affect the
> behavior of reflective APIs that manipulate annotations. The documentation
> of these APIs specifies their behavior when various changes are made to the
> underlying annotation types.
>
> Adding or removing annotations has no effect on the correct linkage of the
> binary representations of programs in the Java programming language.
>
> Certainly removing existing levels would be backwards-incompatible.
>
> Chris Nauroth
> Hortonworks
> http://hortonworks.com/
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > IIRC, it was marked as evolving because it wasn’t clear at the
> > time whether we would need to add more stability levels. (One of the key
> > inspirations for the stability levels—Sun’s ARC process—had more.)
> >
> > So I think it’s important to remember that if this gets changed
> to
> > stable, that effectively means it new levels can’t really get added...
> >
> > On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
> > marked
> > > as Evolving :)
> > > @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> > > public class InterfaceStability {...}
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hey guys,
> > >>>
> > >>> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> > >>> )
> > >>> and InterfaceAudience (
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> > >>> )
> > >>> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much
> in
> > >> the
> > >>> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them
> as
> > >>> stable?
> > >>>
> > >>> -Abe
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> >
>
> --
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Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Chris Nauroth <cn...@hortonworks.com>.
Would it really be backwards-incompatible if we added new levels later?
That seems counter-intuitive and contrary to this piece of documentation:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-13.html#jls-13.5.7
Quoting:
Annotation types behave exactly like any other interface. Adding or
removing an element from an annotation type is analogous to adding or
removing a method. There are important considerations governing other
changes to annotation types, but these have no effect on the linkage of
binaries by the Java Virtual Machine. Rather, such changes affect the
behavior of reflective APIs that manipulate annotations. The documentation
of these APIs specifies their behavior when various changes are made to the
underlying annotation types.
Adding or removing annotations has no effect on the correct linkage of the
binary representations of programs in the Java programming language.
Certainly removing existing levels would be backwards-incompatible.
Chris Nauroth
Hortonworks
http://hortonworks.com/
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com> wrote:
>
> IIRC, it was marked as evolving because it wasn’t clear at the
> time whether we would need to add more stability levels. (One of the key
> inspirations for the stability levels—Sun’s ARC process—had more.)
>
> So I think it’s important to remember that if this gets changed to
> stable, that effectively means it new levels can’t really get added...
>
> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
> marked
> > as Evolving :)
> > @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> > public class InterfaceStability {...}
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> +1
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey guys,
> >>>
> >>> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> >>> )
> >>> and InterfaceAudience (
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> >>> )
> >>> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in
> >> the
> >>> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
> >>> stable?
> >>>
> >>> -Abe
> >>>
> >>
>
>
--
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Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Allen Wittenauer <aw...@altiscale.com>.
IIRC, it was marked as evolving because it wasn’t clear at the time whether we would need to add more stability levels. (One of the key inspirations for the stability levels—Sun’s ARC process—had more.)
So I think it’s important to remember that if this gets changed to stable, that effectively means it new levels can’t really get added...
On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was marked
> as Evolving :)
> @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> public class InterfaceStability {...}
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
>>> )
>>> and InterfaceAudience (
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
>>> )
>>> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in
>> the
>>> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
>>> stable?
>>>
>>> -Abe
>>>
>>
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>.
Patch attached. I'm not sure what is necessary for changing the stability
of class. Please review.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts guys. I've created
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11476 to follow through on
> this.
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > +1
>> >
>> > Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
>> marked
>> > as Evolving :)
>> > @InterfaceStability.Evolving
>> > public class InterfaceStability {...}
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > +1
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hey guys,
>> > > >
>> > > > I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
>> > > > )
>> > > > and InterfaceAudience (
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
>> > > > )
>> > > > classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much
>> in
>> > > the
>> > > > last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them
>> as
>> > > > stable?
>> > > >
>> > > > -Abe
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karthik Kambatla
>> Software Engineer, Cloudera Inc.
>> --------------------------------------------
>> http://five.sentenc.es
>>
>
>
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>.
Thanks for your thoughts guys. I've created
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11476 to follow through on
this.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com>
wrote:
> +1
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was
> marked
> > as Evolving :)
> > @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> > public class InterfaceStability {...}
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> > > > )
> > > > and InterfaceAudience (
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> > > > )
> > > > classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much
> in
> > > the
> > > > last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them
> as
> > > > stable?
> > > >
> > > > -Abe
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Karthik Kambatla
> Software Engineer, Cloudera Inc.
> --------------------------------------------
> http://five.sentenc.es
>
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com>.
+1
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was marked
> as Evolving :)
> @InterfaceStability.Evolving
> public class InterfaceStability {...}
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> > > )
> > > and InterfaceAudience (
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> > > )
> > > classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in
> > the
> > > last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
> > > stable?
> > >
> > > -Abe
> > >
> >
>
--
Karthik Kambatla
Software Engineer, Cloudera Inc.
--------------------------------------------
http://five.sentenc.es
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>.
+1
Though it is kinda funny that the InterfaceStability annotation was marked
as Evolving :)
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public class InterfaceStability {...}
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> > )
> > and InterfaceAudience (
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> > )
> > classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in
> the
> > last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
> > stable?
> >
> > -Abe
> >
>
Re: InterfaceStability and InterfaceAudience stability
Posted by Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com>.
+1
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <ab...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've noticed the InterfaceStability (
>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceStability.java
> )
> and InterfaceAudience (
>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/classification/InterfaceAudience.java
> )
> classes are marked as "Evolving". These really haven't changed much in the
> last few years, so I was wondering if it is reasonable to mark them as
> stable?
>
> -Abe
>