[HBASE-6474] Separate exception types for recoverable and non-recoverable errors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Component/s: Client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 30/Jul/12 16:13
• Updated: 13/Jun/22 18:57
• Resolved: 13/Jun/22 18:57

Description

While reading about asynchbase I noticed that HBase turns exposes all errors to clients as IOEs rather than use the exception hierarchy to separate recoverable and non-recoverable exceptions.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-5796 Fix our abuse of IOE: see http://blog.tsunanet.net/2012/04/apache-hadoop-abuse-ioexception.html