[HBASE-12808] Use Java API Compliance Checker for binary/source compatibility

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: test
• Release Note: Adds a dev-support/check_compatibility.sh script for comparing versions. Run the script to see usage.
• Assignee: Dima Spivak
• Reporter: Dima Spivak
• Created: 05/Jan/15 22:25
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 05:58
• Resolved: 29/Jan/15 03:25

Description

Following busbey's suggestion in HBASE-12556, I've spent some time playing with the Java API Compliance Checker and think it would be a great addition to /dev-support. I propose that we use it to replace the JDiff wrappers we currently have there (since it does what JDiff does and more), and look into putting up automation at builds.apache.org to run the tool regularly (e.g. latest release of a particular branch vs. latest commit of that same branch).

Issue Links

• duplicates: HBASE-8275 Tool to test binary compatibility
• is related to: HBASE-12556 Create a golden file for testing client API source/binary compatibility