[GORA-89] Avoid HBase MiniCluster restarts to shorten gora-hbase tests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.4
• Component/s: gora-hbase
• Assignee: Henry Saputra
• Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
• Created: 30/Jan/12 15:23
• Updated: 03/Mar/22 14:27
• Resolved: 11/Apr/13 04:44

Description

Currently our hbase tests are taking forever and a day. We should shorten the time by avoiding MiniCluster restarts.
Just implement the cluster as a singleton and clean up the tables in
between test by doing a scan and deletes for all rows. It's much
faster than restarting the cluster.

For code referenece please see the implementation here[1]. The class is
HBaseClusterSingleton. It needs some refactoring but I think it's
enough to speed your tests.

Thanks Ioan for the heads up.

[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/mailbox/trunk/hbase/src/test/java/org/apache/james/mailbox/hbase/

Issue Links

• depends upon: HBASE-4448 HBaseTestingUtilityFactory - pattern for re-using HBaseTestingUtility instances across unit tests
• incorporates: GORA-159 gora-hbase MR tests should use HBaseTestingUtility instead of deprecated HBaseClusterTestCase