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

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