[HBASE-40] [hbase] Add a method of getting multiple (but not all) cells for a row at once

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: Client
• Assignee: Bryan Duxbury
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 28/Jan/08 23:43
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 21:13
• Resolved: 12/Mar/08 17:04

Description

We should have the ability to return some but not all cells from a row at once. There are likely to be a number of situations when getFull will return much more data than needed, but using individual get calls would likely be too small. This method should support returning a specific list of columns all at once.

Map<Text, byte[]> results = table.getMulti(new Text[]{cellA, cellB, cellC}, timestamp);

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HBASE-489 CellValue class for transporting cell timestamp with cell value simultaneously