[HADOOP-6943] The GroupMappingServiceProvider interface should be public

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.22.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Aaron Myers
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 07/Sep/10 23:26
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:18
• Resolved: 05/Nov/10 17:30

Description

The GroupMappingServiceProvider interface is presently package-protected. It seems likely that many organizations will be implementing their own versions of this to suit their particular setup. It would be nice if this interface were made public, and annotated with "@InterfaceAudience.Private" and "@InterfaceStability.Evolving".