And for checkAndPut, from the javadoc: "Atomically checks if a row/family/qualifier value match the expectedValue. If it does, it adds the put."
This can be used a number of ways. It sounds like what you're describing is checking if the values there are the same as the ones you are trying to insert? This wouldn't make much sense, why would you re-insert the same value? You specify a row, family, qualifier, and value. You also specify a Put. checkAndPut is an example of an atomic operation. I may want to only insert certain data if the value I expect is there at the time I am inserting. Think about updating account balances, state transitions, data processing, etc. You may read some data at an earlier point in time, do some processing, and then insert. When you do the insert, you only want it to happen if something else hasn't gone in during your process time and modified the data that was there. JG > -----Original Message----- > From: Raghava Mutharaju [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: question on Filtering and checkAndPut() > > Hi all, > > Can the following type of value filter be possible -- Within a > row, > irrespective of the columns (qualifiers), the presence of a value > should be > checked. If that value is present then the row along with all the > columns > should be fetched. > > SingleColumnValueFilter requires the we specify the name of the > qualifier > but here I would like to check the value across all the qualifiers of > the > row. ValueFilter can be used but it does not return all the columns if > there > is a match - it only returns the matched column along with the row. So > I > want something which is a mix of both. Is this possible? > > Can someone please explain the functionality of checkAndPut() method in > HTable? I couldn't get it from the api doc. When I came across this > method, > my guess was that it would check for duplicate values -- for the given > (row, > family, qualifier) combination whether the given value is same as the > value > mentioned in put (for the same combination). > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Raghava.
