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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-1990:
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1) what timeframe? (i.e., I'm expecting to try this 'soon' but not by tomorrow
morning). Even though this is small, this would be my first attempt at an HBase
change and I don't want to screw it up.
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No worries.
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2) I am assuming that the value is still going to take 'byte[]'
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Having convenience functions to address values with strings at user request I
think is fine. But, HBase is really type agnostic with respect to both keys and
values. Storing something as String does not and should not imply the String
type is suitable representation for the value, or Integer, or Boolean, etc.
> 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
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.21.0, 0.20.3
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> 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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