Pavel, You could reverse the keys instead of reversing the scanner. Something "Long.MAX_VALUE - timestamp" and padded with zeros just in case.
Hope it helps, J-D On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Pavel Lysov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys! > > It seems I'll need to be able to paginate over table contents. I'll need to > get items starting from most recent and going past. Is there a good way to > achieve that? Since the keys are sorted (I use timestamps as keys in the > table), I thought about some kind of reverse scanner that would cycle > through the items 999 to 111 - that would help with the pagination > requirement. Though I see nothing like that in the hbase sources. > > Could you please advice how to paginate? :) > > Thank you! > > Pavel Lysov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
