[HBASE-4054] Usability improvement to HTablePool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.92.0
• Component/s: Client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Daniel Iancu
• Reporter: Daniel Iancu
• Created: 01/Jul/11 15:28
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:52
• Resolved: 12/Jul/11 17:05

Description

To improve the usability of the HTablePool the implementation should not rely on the user returning the connection to the pool but rather do that transparently when user closes the HTableImplementation it got.

To do that a HTableImplementation proxy implementation should be returned that wraps a HTable object and holds a reference to the pool. When the client close the proxy it will actually automatically return the wrapped HTable back in pool to be reused. In this case the method HTablePool.putTable don't need to be public

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-5728 Methods Missing in HTableInterface