Enis Soztutar created HBASE-8901:
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Summary: Powershell based bin script (bin/hbase.ps1)
Key: HBASE-8901
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8901
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Sub-task
Components: scripts
Reporter: Enis Soztutar
Assignee: Enis Soztutar
Fix For: 0.98.0, 0.95.2
This is a continuation of HADOOP-9660.
Powershell does argument parsing itself before sending them to the program.
Thus using the hbase.cmd script from the powershell environment comes with some
surprises since ","s and "="s are parsed into .NET objects, and hbase.cmd
receives those arguments separated by space.
An example is:
{code}
hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.CopyTable --new.name=tablecopy
--families=f1:f1,f2:f2,f3:f3 table1
{code}
will be send to the java process as
["--new.name", "tablecopy", "--families", "f1:f1", "f2:f2", "f3:f3", "table1"]
A lot of HBase commands already make use of commas and equals signs for their
arguments, it is important to create least surprise for the users between
different platforms (meaning that they should be able to copy-paste commands).
Although there are some workarounds (like using --% or single and double
quota-ing every argument, like '"--new.name=tablecopy"') they are not user
friendly.
In this isssue, I propose we add a small powershell script to pre-parse the
arguments and reconstruct them to send to the hbase.cmd script.
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