[HBase-dev] [jira] Created: (HBASE-2563) Deprecate methods which accept as a parameter or return a value of type Cell

Deprecate methods which accept as a parameter or return a value of type Cell
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Key: HBASE-2563
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2563
Project: Hadoop HBase
Issue Type: Bug
Components: client
Affects Versions: 0.20.4
Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher


We've deprecated io.Cell, so we should probably deprecate methods which return or accept Cell values. See http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.4/api/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/class-use/Cell.html for the complete list. Here are some selections:

* getCellValue(), getCellValue(byte[], byte[]), and getCellValues() methods of client.Result
* Entry.getValue() and Entry.setValue(Cell) methods of io.RowResult
* cellFromHBase(Cell[]) and cellFromHBase(Cell) methods of thrift.ThriftUtilities
* Writables.cellToLong(Cell), Writables.cellToString(Cell), and Writables.getHRegionInfo(Cell) methods of hbase.util

Also some hbase.rest stuff, but I don't know what's going on there.