[HADOOP-10374] InterfaceAudience annotations should have RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Target Version/s: 2.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Enis Soztutar
• Reporter: Enis Soztutar
• Created: 27/Feb/14 21:45
• Updated: 04/Sep/14 01:16
• Resolved: 27/Feb/14 23:34

Description

There are valid use cases for accessing the InterfaceAudience annotations programatically.

In HBase, we are writing a unit test to check whether every class in the client packages are annotated with one of the annotations. Plus, we are also thinking about a golden file to containing all public method sigs, so that we can ensure public facing API-compatibility from a unit test.

Related: HBASE-8546, HBASE-10462, HBASE-8275

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-10383 InterfaceStability annotations should have RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME
• is related to: HBASE-10462 Recategorize some of the client facing Public / Private interfaces