Why Cannot I import the class from hbase.io.hfile package

Question

I have a HFile that I am trying to read/deserialize using Java. Looks like this HFile.reader is very promising but however, I am having a hard time even getting the library imported in Maven.

This is how my POM looks like:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
        <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
        <artifactId>hbase-common</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </dependency>
 </dependencies>

And somehow I don't see that many classes or objects when I tried to import.

Answer 1

This class can be found in the hbase-server artifact, so you need to depend on that one instead of hbase-common and hbase-client :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
    <artifactId>hbase-server</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

But do note that this class is not intended to be used by 3rd parties. It is annotated @InterfaceAudience.Private , which means:

Intended for use only within Hadoop itself.