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stack commented on HADOOP-1531:
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Nice addition James.
Do you think HADOOP-1439 should be done as a filter?
in RowFilterInterface.java and elsewhere, you open class javadoc comment with a
'<p>'. Superfluous?
Why have this constructor:
+ /** Default constructor, filters nothing. */
+ public RowFilter() {
+ // nada
+ }
Is it needed?
Why pass row regexes on construction but use a setter for adding column filters
rather than pass both to the constructor?
Should these additions go into a filter subpackage? (Its getting a little
crowded in the hbase home directory).
Fix the auto-formatting in HRegion.next (Tests are split over lines. Makes it
harder to follow).
As you state, looks like a feature that would benefit from basic unit tests.
Patch applied cleanly for me to r551038
> Add RowFilter to HRegion.HScanner
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>
> Key: HADOOP-1531
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1531
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/hbase
> Affects Versions: 0.14.0
> Reporter: James Kennedy
> Assignee: James Kennedy
> Attachments: RowFilter.patch
>
>
> I've implemented a RowFilterInterface and a RowFilter implementation. This
> is passed to the HRegion.HScanner via HClient.openScanner() though it is an
> entirely optional parameter.
> HScanner applies the filter in the next() call by iterating until it
> encounters a row that is not filtered by the RowFilter. The filter applies
> criteria based on row keys and/or column data values.
> Null values are little tricky since the resultSet in that loop may represent
> nulls as absent columns or as DELETED_BYTES. Nevertheless null cases are
> taken care of by the filter and you can for example retrieve all rows where
> column X = null.
> The initial RowFilter implementation is limited in several ways:
> * Equality test only with literal values. No !=, <, >, etc. No col1 == col2.
> This is a straight-up byte[] comparison.
> * Multiple column criteria are treated as an implicit conjunction, no
> disjunction possible.
> * row key criteria is a regular expression only
> * row key criteria is independent of column criteria. No "if
> rowkey.matches(A) and col1==B" although the interface is created to allow
> for that.
> But it should be easy to write an improved RowFilterInterface implementation
> to take care of most of the above without having to change code elsewhere.
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