[HBASE-5320] Create client API to handle HBase maintenance gracefully

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mikhail Gryzykhin
• Created: 02/Feb/12 02:55
• Updated: 12/Jun/22 20:08
• Resolved: 12/Jun/22 20:08

Description

When we do HBase cluster maintenance, we typically have to manually stop or disable the client temporarily. It would be nice to have a way for the client to find out that HBase in undergoing maintenance through an appropriate API and gracefully handle it on its own.