[HBASE-41] [REST] Support multipart/related instead of xml input/output

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: REST
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
• Created: 30/Nov/07 19:19
• Updated: 11/Jun/22 19:47
• Resolved: 23/Aug/09 05:55

Description

XML is bulky and slow, but the only way currently supported for multi-column gets/puts/etc. We should add support for multipart/related encoded entity bodies since that will be all binary and presumably faster and more compact.