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stack commented on HADOOP-1789:
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Freemarker, of the two, looks cleaner and it has pretty sophisticated tools for
xml production. A simple experiment just worked. Velocity has a wagonload of
dependencies (Though likely not all are needed for basic operation)
mysql output formatting gets set by command-line parameters. hbase shell could
take params to specify output format (either explicit freemarker template name
or generics such as 'xml' that are internally mapped to template names).
The ConsoleTable class could be made a Singleton. On construction it would
read the command-line parameters either out of System properties or from a
passed HBaseConfiguation instance. Config. would include template to use
formatting.
> [hbaseshell] output formatting
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> Key: HADOOP-1789
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1789
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: contrib/hbase
> Reporter: stack
> Priority: Minor
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> hbaseshell currently outputs results using an ascii table.
> This issue is about the hbaseshell offering a number of output formats beyond
> plain ascii table. It would be grand if output formatting was pluggable so
> folks could add new ones as they saw fit.
> Currently, there is a painful need for unadorned output so folks can do a
> 'select page:content from webrepository where
> row="http://apache.com/index.html";; and they get back the page content only.
> Other output formats might be: csv, xml, or (x)html
> Other related things to consider, but probably not as part of this issue, is
> that if we output xml, then we should probably have a sympathetic input
> parser for xml files (similar for csv). Let this issue just be about
> formatting (another issue can be done to add pluggable input parsers). Where
> the output lands should also be done in another issue: i.e. dependent on the
> command, output probably default to stdout but folks should be able to
> designate an output file (and target filesystem) as in
> hdfs://master.hdfsnode.com:8990/output/dump.txt or file:///tmp/dump.txt or
> s3://...., etc.
> This issue is an outgrowth of HADOOP-1720
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