[HBASE-9245] Remove dead or deprecated code from hbase 0.96

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 16/Aug/13 05:37
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 17:52
• Resolved: 18/Nov/15 18:44

Description

This is an umbrella issue that will cover the removal or refactoring of dangling dead code and cruft. Some can make it into 0.96, some may have to wait for an 0.98. The "great culling" of code will be grouped patches that are logically related.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HBASE-9176 Purge deprecated APIs (and code)
• incorporates: HBASE-9491 KeyValue is still visible to client code through the coprocessor API

Sub-Tasks

• Remove ROOT_TABLEDESC, ROOT_REGIONINFO, and ROOT_TABLE_NAME: Closed
• Cleanup Key/KV/Meta/MetaKey Comparators: Closed
• Make KeyValue.KEY_COMPARATOR default for HFile WriterFactory: Closed
• Eliminate HBaseTestCase and convert to HBaseTestingUtility: Closed
• Convert KeyValue to Cell in hbase-client module - Filters: Closed
• Convert KeyValue to Cell in hbase-client module - Result/Put/Delete, ColumnInterpreter: Closed
• Add deprecation compat shim for Result#raw and Result#list for 0.96: Closed
• Make Cell @interfaceAudience.public and evolving.: Closed
• Rename CellUtil#get*Array to CellUtil#clone*: Closed
• make sure HBase APIs are compatible between 0.94 and 0.96: Closed
• Convert @deprecated HBaseTestCase tests JUnit4 style tests: Closed
• Check that RawComparator implementations use faster UnsafeComparer: Closed
• Have Cell interface extend HeapSize interface: Closed
• Remove deprecation and shims from HBASE-9334/HBASE-9359 from 0.98: Closed
• Remove HServerLoad092: Closed
• Using Cell instead of KeyValue in HFileOutputFormat: Closed
• Remove deprecated public facing classes/methods related to KeyValue: Closed