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Bryan Duxbury updated HBASE-521:
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Attachment: 521-v5.patch
Latest version.
> Improve client scanner interface
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> Key: HBASE-521
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-521
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.2.0
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> Attachments: 521-v2.patch, 521-v3.patch, 521-v4.patch, 521-v5.patch,
> 521.patch
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> The current client scanner interface is pretty ugly. You need to instantiate
> an HStoreKey and SortedMap<Text, byte[]> externally and then pass them into
> next. This is pretty bad, because for starters, the client has to choose the
> implementation of the map when they create it, so it's extra brain cycles to
> figure that out. HStoreKey doesn't show up anywhere else in the entire client
> side API, but here it bubbles out of next as a way to get the row and
> presumably the timestamp of the columns.
> I propose that we supplant HScannerInterface with Scanner, an easier-to-use
> version for clients. Its next method would look something like:
> {code}
> public RowResult next() throws IOException;
> {code}
> This packs the data up much more cleanly, including using Cells as values
> instead of raw byte[], meaning you have much more granular timestamp
> information. You also don't need HStoreKey anymore.
> By breaking Scanner away from HScannerInterface, we can leave the internal
> scanning code completely alone (keep using HStoreKeys and such) but make the
> client cleaner.
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