[HBASE-8277] [API Compatibility]: Create tool to analyze changes in the HBase Java public API

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.6.1
• Component/s: Client, test
• Labels: api_compatibility
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Aleksandr Shulman
• Reporter: Aleksandr Shulman
• Created: 05/Apr/13 01:00
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 05:58
• Resolved: 12/Apr/13 18:10

Description

API incompatibilities can be frustrating for customers. Therefore, it is important to identify incompatibilities and correct them.

There is a tool called JDiff which will compare two public API descriptions. Having it pull from a git repo it will make it very useful.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HBASE-8275 Tool to test binary compatibility