[HBASE-2563] Deprecate methods which accept as a parameter or return a value of type Cell

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.4
• Component/s: Client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
• Created: 18/May/10 17:53
• Updated: 11/Jun/22 23:33
• Resolved: 16/Jul/14 22:07

Description

We've deprecated io.Cell, so we should probably deprecate methods which return or accept Cell values. See http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.4/api/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/class-use/Cell.html for the complete list. Here are some selections:

• getCellValue(), getCellValue(byte[], byte[]), and getCellValues() methods of client.Result
• Entry.getValue() and Entry.setValue(Cell) methods of io.RowResult
• cellFromHBase(Cell[]) and cellFromHBase(Cell) methods of thrift.ThriftUtilities
• Writables.cellToLong(Cell), Writables.cellToString(Cell), and Writables.getHRegionInfo(Cell) methods of hbase.util

Also some hbase.rest stuff, but I don't know what's going on there.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-2679 [stargate] new XML representation
• is related to: HBASE-2680 [stargate] new protobufs representation