RE: doing a scan that will return random columns in a table's family

[Buttler, David]

By default that is what you get.  You do have to navigate through the results:

Result.getFamilyMap():

/**
   * Map of qualifiers to values.
   * <p>
   * Returns a Map of the form: <code>Map&lt;qualifier,value></code>
   * @param family column family to get
   * @return map of qualifiers to values
   */
  public NavigableMap<byte[], byte[]> getFamilyMap(byte [] family)


Or if you don't know the family name even, use the Result.getMap() function

/**
   * Map of families to all versions of its qualifiers and values.
   * <p>
   * Returns a three level Map of the form:
   * <code>Map<family,Map&lt;qualifier,Map&lt;timestamp,value>>></code>
   * <p>
   * Note: All other map returning methods make use of this map internally.
   * @return map from families to qualifiers to versions
   */
  public NavigableMap<byte[], NavigableMap<byte[], NavigableMap<Long, byte[]>>> 
getMap()

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Haidinyak [mailto:javam...@cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:01 AM
To: user@hbase.apache.org
Subject: doing a scan that will return random columns in a table's family

Hi,
        If I have a table:family where I add new columns with computer 
generated  
column name (I won't know what they are to add them to a scan) is it  
possible to do a scan that returns every column in a row?

Thanks

-Pete