[HBASE-5338] Add SKIP support to importtsv

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.96.0
• Component/s: mapreduce
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lars George
• Created: 06/Feb/12 11:42
• Updated: 12/Jun/22 20:17
• Resolved: 08/Jun/14 21:26

Description

It'd be nice to have support for "SKIP" mappings so that you can omit columns from the TSV during the import. For example

-Dimporttsv.columns=SKIP,HBASE_ROW_KEY,cf1:col1,cf1:col2,SKIP,SKIP,cf2:col1...

Or maybe HBASE_SKIP_COLUMN to be less ambiguous.