Why don't you log a JIRA ? By the time you reach the next iteration, hopefully this feature is there - especially if your team can contribute.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Jay T <jay.pyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are currently on Hbase 0.90 (cdh3u3) and soon will be upgrading to > Hbase > 0.94. Our application is written in Python and we use Thrift to connect > to HBase. > Looking at Thrift2 (hbase.thrift) I noticed that TScan struct does not > accept filterString as a parameter. This was introduced in HBase 0.92 > and is still part of thrift (version1) specification. > > We are required to use thrift2 as our application logic requires columns > returned by thrift to be sorted in the order that they are stored in > Hbase. This was not possible in thrift 1 as TRowResult had columns > stored in a map<Text,TCell>. Thrift 2 takes solves this as it uses a > list to store column values TResult returns list<TColumnValue>. > > So we are in a situation where we want to use thrift2 for the sorted > columns (a bigger requirement at this time) but it would also be great > to not give up on using filterString functionality from thrift1. (our > application currently doesn't use filters but we had plans to start > adopting them in the next iteration). > > Are there plans to incorporate filterString in thrift2 TScan struct as > well ? > > Thanks, > Jay >
