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Devaraj Das commented on HBASE-18067:
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+1 .. Tested this on a real cluster
> Support a default converter for data read shell commands
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> Key: HBASE-18067
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18067
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: shell
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Assignee: Josh Elser
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-18067.001.patch, HBASE-18067.002.patch,
> HBASE-18067.003.patch
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> The {{get}} and {{scan}} shell commands have the ability to specify some
> complicated syntax on how to encode the bytes read from HBase on a per-column
> basis. By default, bytes falling outside of a limited range of ASCII are just
> printed as hex.
> It seems like the intent of these converts was to support conversion of
> certain numeric columns as a readable string (e.g. 1234).
> However, if non-ascii encoded bytes are stored in the table (e.g. UTF-8
> encoded bytes), we may want to treat all data we read as UTF-8 instead (e.g.
> if row+column+value are in Chinese). It would be onerous to require users to
> enumerate every column they're reading to parse as UTF-8 instead of the
> limited ascii range. We can provide an option to encode all values retrieved
> by the command.
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