Github user keith-turner commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/42#discussion_r37074749
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/core/iterators/user/SeekingFilter.java
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+package org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.user;
+
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.ByteSequence;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Key;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.PartialKey;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Range;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Value;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.IteratorEnvironment;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.SortedKeyValueIterator;
+import org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.WrappingIterator;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Base class for filters that can skip over key-value pairs which do not
match their filter predicate. In addition to returning true/false to accept or
reject
+ * a kv pair, subclasses can return an extra field which indicates how far
the source iterator should be advanced.
+ *
+ * Note that the behaviour of the negate option is different from the
Filter class. If a KV pair fails the subclass' filter predicate and negate is
true, then
+ * the KV pair will pass the filter. However if the subclass advances the
source past a bunch of KV pairs, all those pairs will be implicitly rejected and
+ * negate will have no effect.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.accumulo.core.iterators.Filter
+ */
+public abstract class SeekingFilter extends WrappingIterator {
+ private static final Logger log =
LoggerFactory.getLogger(SeekingFilter.class);
+
+ protected static final String NEGATE = "negate";
+
+ public enum AdvanceResult {
+ NEXT, NEXT_CQ, NEXT_CF, NEXT_ROW, USE_HINT
+ }
+
+ public static class FilterResult {
+ final boolean accept;
+ final AdvanceResult advance;
+
+ public FilterResult(boolean accept, AdvanceResult advance) {
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In case its not clear, this is not something I think has to be done inorder
to push this to Accumulo. I realize my comments about `FilterResult` are very
subjective. Feel free to ignore them. I was just sharing something I thought
of while looking at the code.
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