[HBASE-12082] Find a way to set timestamp on Cells on the server

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.99.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.99.1
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Anoop Sam John
• Reporter: Anoop Sam John
• Created: 24/Sep/14 17:31
• Updated: 06/Apr/18 17:55
• Resolved: 29/Sep/14 05:55

Description

On write path, we have to replace the ts on cells when the coming in ts is HConstants.LATEST_TIMESTAMP. Also on delete version cells we have to adjust the ts. All these places, now we do Cell to KV convert.
We can provide a similar way as we have given for setting seqId