Each and every HRegion on a given region server will have it's own
distinct instance of your configured RegionObserver class.
RegionCoprocessorEnvironment.getRegion() returns a reference to the
HRegion containing the current coprocessor instance.
The hierarchy is essentially:
HRegionServer
\_ HRegion
\_ RegionCoprocessorHost
\_ <your RegionObserver instance>
(repeated for each HRegion).
This blog post by Mingjie may help explain things a bit more:
https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/coprocessor_introduction
--gh
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:30 AM, yonghu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The description of this method is " /** @return the region associated
> with this coprocessor */" and the return value is an HRegion instance.
> If I configure the region-coprocessor class in hbase-site.xml. It
> means that this coprocessor will be applied to every HRegion which
> resides on this Region Server (if I understand right). Why this
> method only return one HRgion instance not a list of HRgion
> instances?Suppose that a region server has two HRegions, one is for
> table 'test1', the other is for table 'test2'. Which HRgion instance
> will be returned if I call RegionCoprocessorEnvironment.getReion()?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yong
