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Move master branch on to protobuf3. See https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases We'd do it because pb3 saves some on byte copies can work with offheap buffers – needed for the off-heap write path project – though read-time is still a TODO (this means pb3 is not enough; we'll have to patch it – or patch pb2.5).
HBASE-15638 has us first shading protobufs before upgrading. Let us list here issues just going to pb3 without shading if only for completeness sake; i.e. do we have to shade?
- pb3 is by default wire compatible with pb2.
- protoc3 run against our .protos works fine except pb3 breaks our HBaseZeroCopyLiteralByteString hack so this has to be removed (possibly recast using new pb3 types)
- Starting up a cluster that is all pb3 seems to work fine.
- A pb2 branch-1 can read and write against the pb3 master cluster.
What will break if we just upgrade to pb3?
- We should be able to write HDFS messages on our AsyncWAL using pb3; the pb2 HDFS should be able to read them (not tested). Or maybe not. See policy here: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/1852 which seems to indicate pb3s will not be able to write compatible pb2 Messages. TODO.
- Core Coprocessor Endpoints such as AccessControl seem to just work (their protos will have been protoc3'd). I did simple test with a server from master branch up on pb3 and then going against it with a branch-1 client on pb2. I was able to add grants.
- For non-core CPEPs where the protos are pb2 still, it might just work. To test. It would not be the end-of-the-world if they did not.
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HBASE-15638 Shade protobuf
- Closed
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HBASE-16783 Use ByteBufferPool for the header and message during Rpc response
- Closed
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