HBASE-4296 Deprecate HTable[Interface].getRowOrBefore(...)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hbase/trunk@1166527 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-4315  RS requestsPerSecond counter seems to be off (subramanian raghunathan)
    HBASE-4289  Move spinlock to SingleSizeCache rather than the slab allocator
                (Li Pi)
+   HBASE-4296  Deprecate HTable[Interface].getRowOrBefore(...) (Lars Hofhansl)
 
   NEW FEATURES
    HBASE-2001  Coprocessors: Colocate user code with regions (Mingjie Lai via

src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTableInterface.java

@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ public interface HTableInterface {
    * @param family Column family to include in the {@link Result}.
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs.
    * @since 0.20.0
+   * 
+   * @deprecated As of version 0.92 this method is deprecated without
+   * replacement.   
+   * getRowOrBefore is used internally to find entries in .META. and makes
+   * various assumptions about the table (which are true for .META. but not
+   * in general) to be efficient.
    */
   Result getRowOrBefore(byte[] row, byte[] family) throws IOException;