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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-15942:
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I guess in this case we want to describe the table to list the column families.
so we can provide a smaller version of the descriptor with the families if the
user requesting has not CREATE/ADMIN but has read/write on them. but at that
point the descriptor will be "wrong" because the defaults returned by the
getter will not represent the real value. adding another mapping to know
permission of each conf seems too much. do you guys have other suggestion?
introducing a String[] listFamilies(table) which is more or less the same as
listTableNames() seems just an hack but if that is the only case it simplifies
things a lot.
> User with 'RWX' permission of the table should be able to describe the table
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> Key: HBASE-15942
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15942
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Admin
> Reporter: Guang Yang
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HBASE-15942.v0.patch
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> Currently only the user who has 'ADMIN' or 'CREATE' permission could describe
> the table (via shell), it brings some inconvenience and confusion to those
> uses who have RWX permission since they couldn't describe the table to get
> the schema.
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