bq. I have no way to get ALL its cells out
Mutation has the following method:
public NavigableMap<byte [], List<Cell>> getFamilyCellMap() {
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Liu, Ming (HPIT-GADSC) <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello, there,
>
> I am developing a coprocessor under HBase 0.98.6. The client send a Put
> object to the coprocessor in Protobuf, when the coprocessor receive the
> message , it invokes ProtobufUtil.toPut to convert it to a Put object. Do
> various checking and then put it into HBase table.
> Now, I get a requirement to change the timestamp of that Put object, but I
> found no way to do this.
>
> I was first try to generate a new Put object with a new timestamp, and try
> to copy the old one into this new object. But I found given a Put object, I
> have no way to get ALL its cells out if I don't know the column family and
> column qualifier name in advance. In my case, those CF/Column names are
> random as user defined. So I stuck here. Could anyone have idea how to
> workaround this?
>
> The Mutation class has getTimestamp() method but no setTimestamp(). I wish
> there is a setTimestamp() for it. Is there any reason it is not provided? I
> hope in future release Mutation can expose a setTimestamp() method, is it
> possible? If so, my job will get much easier...
>
> Thanks,
> Ming
>
