On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Greg Pelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PHP client accessing HBase through thrift. I posted this on > Thrift's user list and they told me to post it here. I'm a Java developer > by the way, I am doing the server side work, just letting you know so you > don't feel like you're dealing with someone who doesn't know these products. > > Lars George's book "HBase the Definitive Guide" talks about Partial Key > Scans. I see many posts on how to use it but none through thrift, one guy > asked on this mail list and got replies until the person helping realised > he was using thrift and then gave up. That was Sept 2010, I'm hoping > something has changed (in thrift). > > The Thrift interface has a method scannerOpenWithPrefix(table, > startAndPrefix, columns) which looks like it should do what I'm after but > it returns exactly the same thing as the scannerOpen(table, startRow, > columns). > > This is a pretty key piece of functionality, if a user's in many groups > then I need to be able to use partial key matching to find them. Or is > there a better way for me to do this? >
Sounds like scannerOpenWithPrefix is broke. Any chance of your digging in Greg? Yes, I agree, sounds like a pretty core piece of missing functionality. St.Ack
