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Hadoop QA commented on HBASE-11990: ----------------------------------- {color:red}-1 overall{color}. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12669188/HBASE-11990-20140916-v3.patch against trunk revision . ATTACHMENT ID: 12669188 {color:green}+1 @author{color}. The patch does not contain any @author tags. {color:green}+1 tests included{color}. The patch appears to include 3 new or modified tests. {color:red}-1 patch{color}. The patch command could not apply the patch. Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/10925//console This message is automatically generated. > Make setting the start and stop row for a specific prefix easier > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-11990 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11990 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Client > Reporter: Niels Basjes > Attachments: HBASE-11990-20140916-v2.patch, > HBASE-11990-20140916-v3.patch, HBASE-11990-20140916.patch > > > If you want to set a scan from your application to scan for a specific row > prefix this is actually quite hard. > As described in several places you can set the startRow to the prefix; yet > the stopRow should be set to the prefix '+1' > If the prefix 'ASCII' put into a byte[] then this is easy because you can > simply increment the last byte of the array. > But if your application uses real binary rowids you may run into the scenario > that your prefix is something like > {code}{ 0x12, 0x23, 0xFF, 0xFF }{code} Then the increment should be {code}{ > 0x12, 0x24 }{code} > I have prepared a proposed patch that makes setting these values correctly a > lot easier. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)