[HBASE-17962] Improve documentation on Rest interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0, 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation, REST
• Labels: documentation
• Assignee: Niels Basjes
• Reporter: Niels Basjes
• Created: 26/Apr/17 09:19
• Updated: 30/Apr/17 22:26
• Resolved: 28/Apr/17 16:53

Description

The part of the documentation on the rest interface 'hides' the fact that you can retrieve the entire row in one request.
It also does not clearly state that it only works for certain mime types.