[HBASE-6643] Accept encoded region name in compacting/spliting region from shell

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.2
• Component/s: shell
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
• Reporter: Jimmy Xiang
• Created: 23/Aug/12 16:29
• Updated: 07/Apr/13 05:14
• Resolved: 27/Aug/12 21:25

Description

Sometimes, the region name has binary characters. When compacting/splitting it from shell, the region name is not recognized. If we can support encoded region name, it will make things easier.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-8044 split/flush/compact/major_compact from hbase shell does not work for region key with \x format