It should work as documented. Did you have the Accept header as xml, json or protobuf? Then you will get the complete row/family.
Jerry On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Bin Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I started the built-in REST API server for HBase and I am planning to > retrieve the complete column family for a given row using the URL format > here > < > https://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/package-summary.html#operation_cell_query_single > >, > also the guide book here <https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#_gets>. > > The URL for HBase get should follow this format: > > http://example.com:8000/ > <table>/<row>/<column>:<qualifier>/<timestamp>/content:raw > > > And it says "the column qualifier and column timestamp is optional", so I > simply make a request like this, hoping to get the complete column family > for that specific row (with all the column qualifiers under that cf). > > http://example.com:8000/<table>/<row>/<column> > > > The weird thing is that it only gave me back one single column qualifier > and looks like the oldest column qualifier, can anyone tell me if that is > how is supposed to be or I did something wrong. > > How can I get the complete column family for that row given that I only > know the column family and row key? > > This is the HBase REST API version: > > rest 0.0.3 [JVM: Oracle Corporation 1.8.0_72-25.72-b15] [OS: Linux > 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 amd64] [Server: jetty/6.1.26.cloudera.4] > [Jersey: 1.9] > > > Best regards, > > Bin >
