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Jim Kellerman commented on HBASE-489:
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Yuk! You are right.
We need this, but cannot break compatibility until 0.3. So just deprecate the
current APIs for now and that will give use more time to think about the right
interface for 0.3.
This is not a must have for 0.2 which is supposed to focus on reliability and
robustness.
> CellValue class for transporting cell timestamp with cell value simultaneously
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>
> Key: HBASE-489
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-489
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: client, regionserver
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.2.0
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> All of the get* methods take a timestamp parameter that means "at least as
> old as X". This is handy for getting data that fits your expectations about
> when it should exist. However, the result you get back doesn't actually
> contain the real timestamp the cell was stored at.
> For example, let's say you write the stock price for your favorite company
> into row "YHOO" at cell "stock:price". It takes the default timestamp of
> right now. Then, a day passes. You want to get the most recent stock price
> for YHOO, and also when the price was gathered. In the current system, you
> couldn't do this at all without also doing a scan at the same time.
> If we added a new class called CellValue that contained the byte[] cell value
> as well as the long timestamp of when it was stored, we could return an
> instance of this class wherever we used to return just the byte[]. This could
> be used in all the get() methods, getRow, getClosestAtOrBefore, etc. This has
> the advantage of making timestamp into a first-class citizen in HBase, which
> it hasn't been so far.
> Thoughts?
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