Jake, To be honest I really think this is a thrift issue. Both of the following two methods return the same thing, the second sounds like it should be matching the prefix of a key which is exactly what I'm after.
scannerOpen(table, row, columns) and scannerOpenWithPrefix(table, prefix, columns) Cheers On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> wrote: > Greg > If the thrift idl for HBase defines a service to do this then it would be > possible. This would be a better question for the HBase user group > > -Jake > > > On Nov 27, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Greg Pelly wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The HBase book "The definitive guide" describes the concept of partial > key > > scans, I'd like to use that to find a user's groups where the key is made > > up of userid - groupid so I just need to scan for userid and I'll get all > > of the groups for that user. Thrift doesn't appear to support this unless > > I'm missing something. I believe I'm using the latest release of Thrift > in > > 0.7.0. > > > > Cheers > >
