On Jul 5, 2013 8:00 AM, "Ed Kohlwey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had chatted a little less than a year ago about doing something like > this. I finally had some time to sit down and do a little coding to show > what I'm thinking of. > > The use of the various Text, CharSequence, and byte[] objects is really > overcomplicated for most users. It would be nice to have a better API.
Just a knee-jerk reaction here, but allowing a user to provide Text, String or byte[] is painful? I've always viewed it as String if I want to be lazy, and byte[] or Text when I'm more concerned about performance and don't want to be making new objects for every record I need insert into Accumulo. > > While we're at it, it seems sense to make it pluggable. This has the > advantage of providing backwards compatibility with the current API while > still allowing us to tidy up moving forwards. > > I've opened an issue to document thoughts on this as well as a github pull > request to document progress. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1551 > https://github.com/ekohlwey/accumulo/compare/apache:trunk...ACCUMULO-1551 Sweet. I look forward to checking out what you have already.
