Github user MikeThomsen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2518#discussion_r173483953
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nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-services/nifi-hbase-client-service-api/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/hbase/HBaseClientService.java
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@@ -126,6 +138,25 @@
void delete(String tableName, List<byte[]> rowIds) throws IOException;
+ /**
+ * Deletes a list of cells from HBase. This is intended to be used
with granual delete operations.
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I think that's a reasonable word choice because deleting whole row is not
necessarily possible all at once with visibility labels enabled. Each cell that
has a label must have its visibility label sent as part of the delete request.
So you have to build a nuanced delete request.
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