[HBASE-28725] Use thirdparty protobuf for REST interface in HBase 2.x

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0, 2.7.0, 2.5.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0, 2.6.1, 2.5.11
• Component/s: REST
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Istvan Toth
• Reporter: Istvan Toth
• Created: 11/Jul/24 18:08
• Updated: 12/Sep/24 07:24
• Resolved: 11/Sep/24 09:48

Description

This change has already been done in branch 3+ as part of the protobuf 2.5 removal,
We just need to backport it to 2.x.

This removes the requirement of having unshaded protobuf 2.5.0 on the hbase-rest client classpath.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HBASE-28726 Revert REST protobuf package to org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest
• is related to: HBASE-28526 hbase-rest client shading conflict with hbase-shaded-client in HBase 2.x
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6075