[HBASE-24672] HBase Shell Commands Survey

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0
• Assignee: Elliot Miller
• Reporter: Elliot Miller
• Created: 02/Jul/20 17:34
• Updated: 04/Aug/20 19:56

Description

I am going through all 163 commands in the hbase-shell module and checking a few things:

• Functions as advertised
• Consistent naming, formatting, and help
• Return values
  • The majority of the commands still return nil. We can make the shell more powerful by switching some of these commands to return Ruby objects.

Acceptance Criteria

• The product of this ticket will be a spreadsheet with my comments on each command and potentially a design doc or other Jira tickets with the necessary changes found by the survey.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-24722 Address hbase-shell commands with unintentional return values
• relates to: HBASE-24803 Unify hbase-shell ::Shell::Commands::Command#help behavior
• links to: hbase-shell commands survey