Thats because the column info:regioninfo has a serialized HRegionInfo. You need to take the cell bytes and deserialize them as a HRegionInfo instance and then toString it.
See Writables in hbase utils. It has a getHRegionInfo that takes bytes. St.Ack On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:23 AM, bharath vissapragada < [email protected]> wrote: > When i try to extract rowResult.get("info:regioninfo").getValue() and > convert it to string using Bytes.toString() and print it .. its printing > junk characters ... whereas its working fine for other columngroups .. When > i tried > scan '.META.' from command line .. i observed that the value of > info:regioninfo is not a string whereas for others it is a string! > > any comments? > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just do a new Table(".META.") and scan it as you would any other table. > > > > Whats the error? > > > > St.Ack > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:03 AM, bharath vissapragada < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Can you please tell me the classes using wch .META table can be scanned > > .. > > > I > > > am getting error message when iam trying to scan it like a normal > table. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Nothing in the built in API does this for you, but you could scan > > > > .META. looking for the regions of interest, then build scanners on > the > > > > specific ranges of each region. > > > > > > > > Good luck! > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:42 AM, bharath > > > > vissapragada<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all , > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way , i can get "Scanner" to the part of the table in a > > > > specific > > > > > region server using it's "HOST NAME" ... > > > > > > > > > > Eg : suppose i have a table "A" and one of the region servers have > > > > HOSTNAME > > > > > "region1" > > > > > > > > > > Can i get a scanner to all those rows of table "A" in "region1".. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
