There are too many overloaded methods in HRegionServerInterface and consequently HRegionServer.
These should be consolidated into one method per operation and the client should pass the appropriate parameters to the server.
On the server side, the single method should be able to handle parameters that are not supplied, e.g.,
- long values that are not supplied should be -1
- boolean values should be supplied appropriately
- objects that are not supplied should be passed as null
All these overloaded methods eventually call the same method on the server side eventually. Removing the overloads would make following control flow easier.