[HBASE-4176] Exposing HBase Filters to the Thrift API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.92.0
• Component/s: Thrift
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Means of specifying filters in thrift (and in shell) by passing a string specification
• Tags: thrift, client
• Assignee: Anirudh Todi
• Reporter: Anirudh Todi
• Created: 07/Aug/11 21:53
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:54
• Resolved: 18/Aug/11 07:36

Description

Currently, to use any of the filters, one has to explicitly add a scanner for the filter in the Thrift API making it messy and long. With this patch, I am trying to add support for all the filters in a clean way. The user specifies a filter via a string. The string is parsed on the server to construct the filter. More information can be found in the attached document named Filter Language

This patch is trying to extend and further the progress made by the patches in the HBASE-1744 JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1744)

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-10091 Exposing HBase DataTypes to non-Java interfaces
• relates to: HBASE-8774 Add BatchSize and Filter to Thrift2