[HBASE-9218] HBase shell does not allow to change/assign custom table-column families attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.6.1
• Component/s: shell, Usability
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vladimir Rodionov
• Created: 14/Aug/13 19:00
• Updated: 16/Jun/22 17:54
• Resolved: 14/Apr/14 05:42

Description

HBase shell. In 0.94.6.1 the attempt to assign/change custom table or CF attribute does not throw any exception but has no affect. The same code works fine in Java API (on HTableDescriptor or HColumnDescriptor)

This is short shell session snippet:

hbase(main):009:0> disable 'T'
0 row(s) in 18.0730 seconds

hbase(main):010:0> alter 'T', NAME => 'df', 'FAKE' => '10'
Updating all regions with the new schema...
5/5 regions updated.
Done.
0 row(s) in 2.2900 seconds

hbase(main):011:0> enable 'T'
0 row(s) in 18.7140 seconds

hbase(main):012:0> describe 'T'
DESCRIPTION                                                                                                            ENABLED
 {NAME => 'T', FAMILIES => [{NAME => 'df', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER = true
 > 'NONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'GZ', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL => '2147483647', K
 EEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'true', ENCODE_ON_DISK => 'true', BLOCKCACHE => 'tru
 e'}]}

As you can see, the new attribute 'FAKE' has not been added to column family 'cf'.