If I understand what you need, there is the ColumnPaginationFilter that does exactly what you mention.
> From: [email protected] > Subject: Pagination through families / columns? > Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:49:16 -0700 > To: [email protected] > > Hey Guys, > > Not sure if this functionality is available or not, if its not consider this > a feature request :). > > The main summary is that rows can contain massive amounts of data, so we can > narrow > selection by family. However, if the family is large enough is there a way to > grab parts of > the family using and offset and a limit? To compound it further, what if the > column names > are dynamic. > > Example > > table 'foo' > family 'bar' > column '1111' > column '1112' > column '1113' > ... > column '9999' > > > The request I would like to make is > > 'get', 'foo', 'somerowid' , 'bar:', {LIMIT => 10} > > After discovering column name and cursing through > > 'get', 'foo', 'somerowid' , 'bar:', {LIMIT => 10, OFFSET => '1121'} > or maybe 'get', 'foo', 'somerowid' , 'bar:1121', {LIMIT => 10} > > Other thoughts would be if its reversible or not {ORDER => -1}, but more > importantly > available to the thrift client. >
