[HBASE-13197] Connection API cleanup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: API
• Assignee: Mikhail Antonov
• Reporter: Mikhail Antonov
• Created: 11/Mar/15 08:25
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 18:22
• Resolved: 30/Jun/17 12:10

Description

Please see some discussion in HBASE-12586. Basically, we seem to have several different ways of acquiring connections, most of which are marked as deprecated (that include HConnectionManager class and notion of managed connections).

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-10776 Separate HConnectionManager into several parts
• relates to: HBASE-12586 Task 6 & 7 from HBASE-9117, delete all public HTable constructors and delete ConnectionManager#{delete,get}Connection

Sub-Tasks

• Remove HConnectionManager: Closed
• Remove deprecated and unused methods from HTable class: Closed
• Make HConnectionImplementation top-level class.: Closed
• Get rid of managed connections and connection caching: Closed
• Remove HTableInterface: Closed
• Remove HTableInterface#getRowOrBefore related server side code: Closed
• Remove deprecated methods from BufferedMutator class: Closed
• Doc how the oddball HTable methods getStartKey, getEndKey, etc. will be removed in 2.0.0: Closed
• Remove getRowOrBefore related thrift side code: Closed