[HBASE-3348] Allow Observers to completely override base function

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.92.0
• Component/s: Coprocessors
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Created: 13/Dec/10 22:58
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 12:43
• Resolved: 15/Dec/10 10:13

Description

Currently an observer can act as a filter or translator but cannot stop a subsequent call down to the base method for get, put, delete, etc. This means an observer cannot completely override the base function. To deal with this we can:

• Change the preXXX methods to return the same type as the postXXX methods, the same return type of the base method.

• Extend Coprocessor.Environment with methods that get/set a "should continue" flag.

The framework should check the "should continue" flag before calling the base method. If not, just return what was returned by the preXXX method.