Hi With the introduction of the new Cell Interface we are providing a way where both the RPC usage of cell and the usage of Cell in HFile are unified.(abstracted)
The current block encoder which encodes the kvs into hfile blocks will be enhanced may be BlockEncode2 which will deal with Cell encoding and the same will be written to HFile. Does that mean that there are going to be changes to the HFile format also? Just to understand is my understanding here correct or not. Because as the Cell interface the row, family, qualifier all are treated as individual byte arrays. Also it does not provide a way to access the getKeyOffset() and getKeyLength(). This is in lieu with HBASE-7448 - Adding tags to cell interface and then the same will be used in HBASE-7663 - Visibility labels. May be further queries/doubts can be posted on those relevant JIRAs to proceed work on that. Regards Ram
