[HBASE-1885] Simplify use of IndexedTable outside Java API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Simplify use of TableIndexed when your secondary keys are guaranteed to be unique. Ability to create an index from the Hbase shell.
• Tags: transactional, tableindexed, shell
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kevin Peterson
• Created: 03/Oct/09 00:46
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 13:01
• Resolved: 12/Oct/09 23:57

Description

I'm using TableIndexed to manage a secondary key that I use for lookups from Thrift. I think this is a potentially common use case.

• Add a UniqueIndexKeyGenerator to use the exact value of the indexed column in the primary table as the row key in the index table.
• Add support for creating indexes to the Hbase shell

I'm attaching the UniqueIndexKeyGenerator patch. I will add a test and also add the changes to the shell soon.