public Map<String, String> getUpdateLocations() {
      return updateLocations;
    }
The following APIs

 - updateMDatabaseURI

is used by HiveMetaTool. This API **shouldn't** be exposed via Thrift.
standalone-metastore/metastore-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/tools/MetaToolObjectStore.java