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Ding Haifeng commented on HBASE-8865:
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It looks like that converting a ASCII-8bit bytes array to a UTF-8 string will
result such an decoding error.
see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11162470
I found a work-around solution by explicitly converting string to bytes array
in HBase shell. For example, executing the following command
* split 'tsdb-test'.to_java_bytes, "\x00\x00\xC0".to_java_bytes
which will call the method:
* void HBaseAdmin.split(String tableNameOrRegionName, String splitPoint)
rather than
* void HBaseAdmin.split(byte[] tableNameOrRegionName, byte[] splitPoint)
works correctly.
I'm wondering if it is more reasonable to take this as default behavior. It
will be working for both plain strings and arbitrary bytes arrays.
> HBase shell split command acts incorrectly with hex split keys.
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>
> Key: HBASE-8865
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8865
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: shell
> Affects Versions: 0.94.8
> Environment: Linux
> Reporter: Ding Haifeng
>
> When I tried to do a manual region split from HBase shell, I found that split
> command acts incorrectly with hex split keys.
> Here is an example.
> I execute hbase(main):003:0> split 'tsdb', "\x00\x00\xC3" .
> While I expect it to split at the 3-byte key "\x00\x00\xC3" , it actually
> split at a 5-byte key "\x00\x00\xEF\xBF\xBD".
> I test with more split keys and find some patterns:
> * If the all bytes in the split key represented in hexadecimal are between
> "\x00" and "\x7F" , it works as expected and split at exactly the key
> specified.
> * If there are any bytes between "\x80" and "xFF", it works incorrectly. No
> matter the byte is, it is interpreted as "\xEF\xBF\xBD". Here is another
> example. Specifying split key "\x00\xA0\x00\xB0" actually splits at
> "\x00\xEF\xBF\xBD\x00\xEF\xBF\xBD".
> I'm running Hbase 0.94.8, r1485407, both server-side and client-side.
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