[HBASE-13788] Shell commands do not support column qualifiers containing colon (:)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.96.0, 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Component/s: shell
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dave Latham
• Created: 27/May/15 17:51
• Updated: 24/Jun/22 19:01
• Resolved: 24/Jun/22 19:01

Description

The shell interprets the colon within the qualifier as a delimiter to a FORMATTER instead of part of the qualifier itself.

Example from the mailing list:

Hmph, I may have spoken too soon. I know I tested this at one point and
it worked, but now I'm getting different results:

On the new cluster, I created a duplicate test table:
hbase(main):043:0> create 'content3',

{NAME => 'x', BLOOMFILTER => 'NONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '3', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => '2147483647', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', BLOCKCACHE => 'true'}

Then I pull some data from the imported table:
hbase(main):045:0> scan 'content',

{LIMIT=>1, STARTROW=>'A:9223370612089311807:twtr:57013379'}

ROW COLUMN+CELL
....
A:9223370612089311807:twtr:570133798827921408
column=x:twitter:username, timestamp=1424775595345, value=BERITA &
INFORMASI!

Then put it:
hbase(main):046:0> put
'content3','A:9223370612089311807:twtr:570133798827921408',
'x:twitter:username', 'BERITA & INFORMASI!'

But then when I query it, I see that I've lost the column qualifier
":username":
hbase(main):046:0> scan 'content3'
ROW COLUMN+CELL
A:9223370612089311807:twtr:570133798827921408 column=x:twitter,
timestamp=1432745301788, value=BERITA & INFORMASI!

Even though I'm missing one of the qualifiers, I can at least filter on
columns in this sample table.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-6592 [shell] Add means of custom formatting output by column