[HADOOP-8044] Unify ProtocolMetaInterface and ProtocolTranslator interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: HA Branch (HDFS-1623)
• Fix Version/s: HA Branch (HDFS-1623)
• Component/s: ha, ipc
• Target Version/s: HA Branch (HDFS-1623)
• Assignee: Aaron Myers
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 09/Feb/12 04:57
• Updated: 09/Feb/12 06:45
• Resolved: 09/Feb/12 06:45

Description

In the HA branch we have a "ProtocolTranslator" interface which we had to add, and it seems to have the same purpose as the "ProtocolMetaInterface" interface which got added in trunk in the meantime. We should unify the two.