[HBASE-11639] [Visibility controller] Replicate the visibility of Cells as strings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Replication, security
• Labels: VisibilityLabels
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Allows the visibility tags to be replicated as Strings to the peer cluster. Useful in cases where the peer cluster and the source cluster does not have a common global LABELs table.
In order to enable this feature configure the below property in hbase-site.xml
<property>
<name>
hbase.coprocessor.regionserver.classes
</name>
<value>
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.security.visibility.VisibilityController$VisibilityReplication
</value>
<property>

• Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Created: 01/Aug/14 02:52
• Updated: 06/Apr/18 17:54
• Resolved: 03/Dec/14 04:30

Description

This issue is aimed at persisting the visibility labels as strings in the WAL rather than Label ordinals. This would help in replicating the label ordinals to the replication cluster as strings directly and also that after HBASE-11553 would help because the replication cluster could have an implementation as string based visibility labels.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HBASE-11805 KeyValue to Cell Convert in WALEdit APIs
• links to: reviewboard