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Ben West commented on HBASE-4818: --------------------------------- I can work on adding this to the web UI if someone can suggest a place to store the formatter preference. Should it just be in hbase-site.xml? > HBase Shell - Add support for formatting row keys before output > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4818 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4818 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: shell > Reporter: Eran Kampf > Priority: Trivial > Attachments: format3.patch, hbase-4818.patch > > Original Estimate: 24h > Remaining Estimate: 24h > > As many HBase users use binary row keys rather than strings to optimize > memory consumption displaying an escaped string in the HBase shell isn't > useful (and takes a lot of screen space) > Allowing user to provide a row key formatter as part of the scan\get commands > would allow developers to display the row key in a way thats makes sense for > them. > Example: > scan 'stats', { ROWFORMATTER => MyRowFormatter.new } > The row formatter simply gets the bytes array key and formats it to a string. > Its an easy change tomake with simple monkey-patching of the shell commands > but I would be happy to see it as part of the shell itself. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira