[HADOOP-6677] InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate should take a string not an enum

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 02/Apr/10 20:23
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:42
• Resolved: 27/Apr/10 16:54

Description

Trying to keep the list of all possible components sharing limited private interfaces up to date is painful. As other subprojects beyond HDFS and MR use this interface it will only get worse (see PIG-1311). If it is converted to a string other subprojects can use it without requiring patches to common.