[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-6061) Metastore (and other) Thrift APIs should use request-response pattern

["Prasad Mujumdar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Prasad Mujumdar commented on HIVE-6061:
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HiveServer2 IDL already uses request/response structures.


> Metastore (and other) Thrift APIs should use request-response pattern
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>
>                 Key: HIVE-6061
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6061
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Metastore, Thrift API
>            Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
>
> Wish in lieu of "brainstorming" JIRA.
> Metastore Thrift APIs currently use normal method signatures (e.g. int foo(string bar, double baz)); this is problematic in Thrift because the APIs cannot be evolved without breaking compat; and weird names have to be invented because overloading is not supported either.
> An easy solution to this is to have methods in the form of FooResponse foo(FooRequest req); the structures can then be evolved easily.
> This may apply also to other Thrift APIs, I have not checked.
> This is a brainstorming JIRA for the transformations. Obviously this will either double the API size, or cause massive backward incompatibility. 
> Maybe we can do 1-2 releases with both APIs, marking the old ones deprecated in some form, and then remove them?



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