We have been having a lot of success using the importtsv utility to load data into HBase as described in the wiki (http://hbase.apache.org/bulk-loads.html). The one issue we have run into is that we would like to assign a specific timestamp to the records associated with the import. The current ImportTsv.java class sets the timestamp to the current time ( ts = System.currentTimeMillis() ). We have a patch we have been using that if a system property is set ( importtsv.timestamp ) to set the timestamp from the property. If the property is not set to use the current time. This has been very helpful for us and allows for more control in setting the timestamps for imported records.
My question is is this useful functionality in general? If so I'd be happy to submit a JIRA and patch with the appropriate changes. Thanks Andy
