Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
On the list Inchol Song made the following reasonable request:
Inchul Song wrote:
> I am making changes to Hbase Shell to add support for
> the new CREATE TABLE syntax. (See issue HADOOP-1720.)
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> But there are only two useful constructors in class HColumnDescriptor
> for column creation, one with an argument specifying a column name,
> the other with a number of arguments specifying all the options
> for the column such as a compression method, max length, and so on,
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> In a CREATE TABLE statement, when a user specifies only
> some of the available options, I'd like to fill in the remaining options
> with their default values. I expected to access those default values as
> public static fields of the HColumnDescriptor class, but those values
> were hidden in the class as private fields. So I had to look into
> the source code of the HColumnDescriptor class to find out
> which default values are used in its single argument constructor.
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> I think it would be useful to make the default option values
> in the HColumnDescriptor class as public static fields.
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> Is there any reason not to make them public static fields?