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Clint Morgan commented on HBASE-583:
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This filter is used to filter based on the value of a given column. It takes an
operator (equal, greater, not equal, etc) and either a byte [] value or a byte
[] comparator. If we have a byte [] value then we just do a lexicographic
compare. If this is not sufficient (eg you want to deserialize a long and then
compare it to a fixed long value, then you can pass in your own comparator
instead.
This is more powerful than RegexpRowFilter which just does equals comparisons
on the columns because we can do no lexicographic comparisons, and operators
other than equals.
I would suggest deprecating the functionality (setColumnFilter and the
constructor that takes columnFilter) from RegexpRowFilter as well. (This
functionality should not even be in there if you believe its name)
Speaking of names, maybe this is not the best name. How about ColumnValueFilter?
> RangeRowFilter, allow to choose rows based on a (lexicographic) comparison to
> column's values
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> Key: HBASE-583
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-583
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: filters
> Reporter: Clint Morgan
> Assignee: Clint Morgan
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: hbase-583-v2.patch, hbase-583-v3.patch, hbase-583.patch
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> This allows one to do equal, greater than, etc comparisons on column values.
> Only rows with columns which pass comparison get through.
> Its cleaner and more powerful than the "columnFilter" in RegExpRowFilter
> which only provides equals. I think this functionality should be deprecated
> in RegExpRowFilter.
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