[HBASE-1184] HColumnDescriptor is a little too restrictive with family names

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.1, 0.20.0
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Toby White
• Created: 04/Feb/09 21:16
• Updated: 13/Sep/09 22:24
• Resolved: 05/Feb/09 22:25

Description

HColumnDescriptor crrently requires of its family names that they be letters, digits, underscores or periods.

Character.isLetterOrDigit(b[i]) || b[i] == '_' || b[i] == '.'

It would be nice if it let rather more characters be used (personally, I'd like to use a hyphen!)