[HBASE-19340] Backport missing options in shell

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.2, 1.2.7
• Component/s: shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Add missing constants configuration in shell thru backport.
• Assignee: zhaoyuan
• Reporter: zhaoyuan
• Created: 24/Nov/17 07:56
• Updated: 01/Aug/18 06:23
• Resolved: 07/Dec/17 06:16

Description

Recently I wanna try to alter the split policy for a table on my cluster which version is 1.2.6 and as far as I know The SPLIT_POLICY is an attribute of the HTable so I run the command in hbase shell console below.
alter 'tablex',SPLIT_POLICY => 'org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.DisabledRegionSplitPolicy'
However, It gave the information like this and I confused
Unknown argument ignored: SPLIT_POLICY
Updating all regions with the new schema...
So I check the source code That admin.rb might miss the setting for this argument .
htd.setMaxFileSize(JLong.valueOf(arg.delete(MAX_FILESIZE))) if arg[MAX_FILESIZE]
htd.setReadOnly(JBoolean.valueOf(arg.delete(READONLY))) if arg[READONLY]
...
So I think it may be a bug ,is it?

Issue Links

• breaks: HBASE-20575 Fail to config COMPACTION_ENABLED by hbase shell