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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-10322: ---------------------------------------- Our bottom line, in my opinion, is that tags don't end up in the hands of those who shouldn't see them. The rock bottom simplest way to do this is to just not support tags in RPC codecs. Maybe we can have a separate class that keeps them for the Export tool specifically? Import is no problem if the user, presumably privileged, is building HFiles and therefore the cells within them directly. Accumulo has the same approach to whole file imports - no checking done, YMMV. > Strip tags from KV while sending back to client on reads > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-10322 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10322 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.98.0 > Reporter: Anoop Sam John > Assignee: Anoop Sam John > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.98.0, 0.99.0 > > Attachments: HBASE-10322.patch > > > Right now we have some inconsistency wrt sending back tags on read. We do > this in scan when using Java client(Codec based cell block encoding). But > during a Get operation or when a pure PB based Scan comes we are not sending > back the tags. So any of the below fix we have to do > 1. Send back tags in missing cases also. But sending back visibility > expression/ cell ACL is not correct. > 2. Don't send back tags in any case. This will a problem when a tool like > ExportTool use the scan to export the table data. We will miss exporting the > cell visibility/ACL. > 3. Send back tags based on some condition. It has to be per scan basis. > Simplest way is pass some kind of attribute in Scan which says whether to > send back tags or not. But believing some thing what scan specifies might not > be correct IMO. Then comes the way of checking the user who is doing the > scan. When a HBase super user doing the scan then only send back tags. So > when a case comes like Export Tool's the execution should happen from a super > user. > So IMO we should go with #3. > Patch coming soon. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)