Add methods accepting strings for family/qualifier in client
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Key: HBASE-1990
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1990
Project: Hadoop HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: client
Affects Versions: 0.20.0
Reporter: Doug Meil
Consider the following client code...
byte b[] = result.getValue( Bytes.toBytes("family"),
Bytes.toBytes("qualifier") );
put.add( Bytes.toBytes("family"), Bytes.toBytes("qualifer"),
Bytes.toBytes( "value") );
... the requirement to supply family and qualifiers as bytes causes code to get
cluttered and verbose. At worst, it scares peoples un-necessarily about HBase
development, and at best, developers inevitably will get tired of doing all
this casting and then add their own wrapper classes around the HBase client to
make their code more readable.
I would like to see something like this in the API...
byte b[] = result.getValue( "family"), "qualifier" );
put.add( "family", "qualifer", Bytes.toBytes( "value") );
... where the Hbase client can perform the required Bytes.toBytes() conversion
behind the scenes.
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