[HBASE-16784] Make use of ExtendedCell#write(OutputStream os) for the default HFileWriter#append()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Created: 06/Oct/16 17:06
• Updated: 12/Oct/16 08:07
• Resolved: 12/Oct/16 05:11

Description

Initially this I was thinking we need to add an interface to represent the fact that the key is contiguous. But since Extendedcell is added encapsulating all the internal interfaces and adds a write(OutputStream , boolean) and tries to exploit the fact that the Cell is in KV serialized format. Hence we can make use of it in HFileWriter#append() code in case of No encoding case.