Ping? Could someone clarify on this pls? Regards Ram
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:46 PM, ramkrishna vasudevan < ramkrishna.s.vasude...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > With the introduction of the new Cell Interface we are providing a way > where both the RPC usage of cell and the usage of Cell in HFile are > unified.(abstracted) > > The current block encoder which encodes the kvs into hfile blocks will be > enhanced may be BlockEncode2 which will deal with Cell encoding and the > same will be written to HFile. > > Does that mean that there are going to be changes to the HFile format > also? Just to understand is my understanding here correct or not. > > Because as the Cell interface the row, family, qualifier all are treated > as individual byte arrays. Also it does not provide a way to access the > getKeyOffset() and getKeyLength(). > > This is in lieu with HBASE-7448 - Adding tags to cell interface and then > the same will be used in > HBASE-7663 - Visibility labels. > > May be further queries/doubts can be posted on those relevant JIRAs to > proceed work on that. > > Regards > Ram >
