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Lars George commented on HBASE-1990:
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Vaibhav,
I think the idea was to use that as an optional "wrapper" around the purely
byte oriented low level classes. Also, you can always still do this
{code}
Put<String, String, String, byte> put = new Put<String, String, String,
byte>("row1");
put.add("family", "stringtest", Bytes.toBytes("stringdata"));
{code}
and do the value conversion to byte yourself. Or we add a "Object" type
parameter and convert the value from Long, String, etc. internally (like an
"auto boxing" or marshalling).
> Add methods accepting strings for family/qualifier in client
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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: 0.20.3, 0.21.0
>
> Attachments: TestHTableGenerics.java
>
>
> 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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