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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-8593:
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I requested the patch's author kindly consider how this could be built off of
HBASE-10091. However, I've not made progress there.
> Type support in ImportTSV tool
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> Key: HBASE-8593
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8593
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: mapreduce
> Reporter: Anoop Sam John
> Assignee: rajeshbabu
> Fix For: 0.99.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-8593.patch, HBASE-8593_v2.patch,
> HBASE-8593_v4.patch, ReportMapper.java
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> Now the ImportTSV tool treats all the table column to be of type String. It
> converts the input data into bytes considering its type to be String. Some
> times user will need a type of say int/float to get added to table by using
> this tool.
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