Take a look at TestAdmin#testCreateTableRPCTimeOut() where hbaseadmin.createTable() is called.
bq. Is there a way to go about splitting the entire table without having specific start and end keys? I don't think so. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Cole <cole.skov...@cerner.com> wrote: > I was wondering how I can go about evenly splitting an entire table in > HBase during table creation[1]. I tried providing the empty byte arrays > HConstants.EMPTY_START_ROW and HConstants.EMPTY_END_ROW > as parameters to the method I linked below, and got an error: "Start > key must be smaller than end key". Is there a way to go about splitting > the entire table without having specific start and end keys? Thanks in > advance. > > > [1] > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html > #createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor, byte[], byte[], int) > >
