[HBASE-24609] Move MetaTableAccessor out of hbase-client

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: amv2, Client, meta
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Introduced a CatalogFamilyFormat to place the method for generating/parsing cells in catalog family.
Renamed AsyncMetaTableAccessor to ClientMetaTableAccessor, removed duplicated code with CatalogFamiltyFormat and MetaTableAccessor, moved some code in MetaTableAccessor to ClientMetaTableAccessor.
Moved MetaTableAccessor to hbase-balancer.

• Assignee: Duo Zhang
• Reporter: Duo Zhang
• Created: 21/Jun/20 12:47
• Updated: 03/Mar/23 13:56
• Resolved: 24/Jun/20 13:26

Description

On master branch we have AsyncMetaTableAccessor which is used at client side and MetaTableAccessor has lots of internal methods for implementing assignment, which is not part of our client code.

So let's move it to hbase-server, and in the future, maybe in hbase-balancer?

Issue Links

• duplicates: HBASE-24608 Introduce a CatalogAccessor
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1943