[HBASE-3541] REST Multi Gets

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.92.0
• Component/s: REST
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Elliott Neil Clark
• Reporter: Elliott Neil Clark
• Created: 17/Feb/11 01:00
• Updated: 20/May/16 09:58
• Resolved: 24/Mar/11 23:06

Description

Users currently using the REST interface do not have a way to ask for multiple rows within one http call.

For my use case I want to get a set of rows that I know the key before hand. It's a very small percentage of my table and may not be contiguous so the scanner is not the right use-case for me. Currently the http overhead is the largest percentage of my processing time.

Ideally I'd like to create a patch that would act very similar to:

GET /table/?row[]="rowkey"&row[]="rowkey_two"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
"Rows":[ << Array of results equivalent to a single get >>]
}

This should be pretty backward compatible. As it's just making the row key into a query string.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: HBASE-15870 Specify columns in REST multi gets