[HBASE-5592] Make it easier to get a table from shell

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.0, 0.95.0
• Component/s: shell
• Labels: shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ben West
• Reporter: Ben West
• Created: 16/Mar/12 15:08
• Updated: 26/Feb/13 08:13
• Resolved: 21/Mar/12 20:26

Description

The one argument constructor to HTable was removed at some point, which means that you now have to pass in a Configuration to instantiate an HTable. This is annoying for me when I create quick scripts.

This JIRA is a tiny patch which lets you get an HTable instance in the shell by doing

foo_table = @shell.hbase_table('foo').table

Basically, it is changing table to be a public member rather than a private one.