[KUDU-861] Add client APIs for more alter-schema operations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: api, client
• Code Review: https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/4310/
• Assignee: William Berkeley
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 14/Jul/15 15:10
• Updated: 16/Feb/18 15:17
• Resolved: 01/May/17 17:59

Description

We don't seem to have any APIs to do some important operations:

• SET DEFAULT / DROP DEFAULT
• change storage properties (encoding/compression)

We should add these in both clients and add some tests.

Issue Links

• is related to: KUDU-975 Review Java API for alter schema