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From: "Josh Elser (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Updated] (ACCUMULO-4047) TabletBalancer has an implicit
 requirement for a specific constructor
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Josh Elser updated ACCUMULO-4047:
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> TabletBalancer has an implicit requirement for a specific constructor
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>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-4047
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4047
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: master
>            Reporter: Josh Elser
>
> TabletBalancers are an extension point designed for non-core-Accumulo devs to implement balancers for a specific purpose.
> As noticed in ACCUMULO-3356, there is an unwritten requirement that any concrete implementations of TabletBalancer have a constructor that takes a String object as an argument. This wouldn't be so bad but it's a silent failure that falls back to the DefaultBalancer (that's why we haven't noticed ACCUMULO-3356 for ages).
> TabletBalancer already has an init method which could be used. There are lots of other ways it could be addressed. At a minimum, this should be prominently documented.


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