[HBASE-10368] Add Mutation.setWriteToWAL() back to 0.98

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.99.0
• Component/s: Client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Enis Soztutar
• Reporter: Enis Soztutar
• Created: 16/Jan/14 23:28
• Updated: 21/Feb/15 23:30
• Resolved: 17/Jan/14 02:21

Description

This is similar to HBASE-10339, where we deprecated the API Mutation.setWriteToWAL() in 0.96 and removed it in 0.98.
Although 0.94.7+ contains the Durability API which replaces this, for Pig and other tools to be able to compile with 0.94.7- and 0.98 without shims / reflection, the safest way is to add the API back to 0.98 in deprecated mode.

daijy says that it may still be important to be able to compile with 0.94.7-, which I kind of agree.