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stack commented on HBASE-9717:
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Sounds good Mathias. You have a sketch of what API might look like? Could we
do it in a way that is backward compatible? Thanks.
> Allow filterRowKey to return a next key hint
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> Key: HBASE-9717
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9717
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Filters
> Reporter: Mathias Herberts
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> The Filter interface has a filterRowKey method which returns a boolean set to
> true if the given row key should be filtered out.
> When a row key is filtered, it could be interesting to be able to provide the
> scanner a hint about the next row key which should be examined. This could
> tremendously speed up scanning in some cases.
> The logic could be similar to that of filterKeyValue with a helper method
> getNextRowKeyHint, or even simpler, filterRowKey could return a byte[] which
> would be set to null to mean keep the row, to the empty array to mean filter
> the row and there is not hint, and to a non empty byte array to mean filter
> the row and here is a hint about the next key that should be scanned.
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