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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-5228:
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Jack confirmed in private correspondence that this can come out. I'd like to do
it ASAP as part of 0.92 (and any further 0.90 release) so we don't pick up a
user of this misfeature.
> [REST] Rip out "transform" feature
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> Key: HBASE-5228
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5228
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.92.0, 0.94.0, 0.90.5
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: Andrew Purtell
> Attachments: HBASE-5228.patch
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> The 'transform' feature, where REST can be instructed, via a table attribute,
> to apply a transformation (e.g. base64 encoding or decoding) to a (sub)set of
> column values before serving them up to a client or storing them into HBase,
> was added some time ago at the request of Jack Levin. I have since come to
> regret it, it was not a well thought out feature:
> - This is really an application concern.
> - It adds significant overhead to request processing: Periodically a
> HBaseAdmin is used to retrieve the table descriptor, in order to scan through
> table attributes for transformation directives.
> I think it is best to rip it out, its a real problem area, and REST should be
> no more concerned about data formats than the Java API.
> I doubt anyone uses this, not even Jack. Will need to follow up with him to
> confirm.
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