[PHOENIX-5182] Deprecate getTotalSum API of the GlobalMetric interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.13.0, 4.14.0, 4.13.1, 5.0.0, 4.15.0, 4.14.1, 5.1.0
• Assignee: Chinmay Kulkarni
• Reporter: Chinmay Kulkarni
• Created: 07/Mar/19 23:50
• Updated: 21/Dec/19 00:53
• Resolved: 09/Mar/19 00:29

Description

The GlobalMetric interface has a getTotalSum API which is not of much value. The only implementation of this interface GlobalMetricImpl (which is not no-op) basically does a getValue for the metric when we call getTotalSum, which is confusing. We should deprecate it.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #459