[HBASE-1744] Thrift server to match the new java api.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.0
• Component/s: Thrift
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Tags: thrift, client
• Assignee: Tim Sell
• Reporter: Tim Sell
• Created: 04/Aug/09 09:35
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 05:34
• Resolved: 02/Nov/11 18:20

Description

This mutateRows, etc.. is a little confusing compared to the new cleaner java client.
Thinking of ways to make a thrift client that is just as elegant. something like:

void put(1:Bytes table, 2:TPut put) throws (1:IOError io)

with:

struct TColumn {
1:Bytes family,
2:Bytes qualifier,
3:i64 timestamp
}

struct TPut {
1:Bytes row,
2:map<TColumn, Bytes> values
}

This creates more verbose rpc than if the columns in TPut were just map<Bytes, map<Bytes, Bytes>>, but that is harder to fit timestamps into and still be intuitive from say python.

Presumably the goal of a thrift gateway is to be easy first.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HBASE-3117 Update Thrift to 0.5 version
• is related to: HBASE-1846 Move thrift to contrib
• is related to: HBASE-2116 Puts and deletes can no longer be applied to the same row with the new client API
• relates to: HBASE-1402 move "non-native" connectors to contrib style packaging