[HBASE-12619] Backport HBASE-11639 (Replicate the visibility of Cells as strings) to 0.98

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.8
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.9
• Component/s: security
• Labels: visibility
• 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: 03/Dec/14 04:32
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:53
• Resolved: 05/Dec/14 02:25

Description

Raising a back port issue for HBASE-11639. We have the patch ready just need to see how we are handling the new CP hook in RS Observer.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-11992 Backport HBASE-11367 (Pluggable replication endpoint) to 0.98