[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11990?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14135706#comment-14135706 ]
stack commented on HBASE-11990: ------------------------------- bq. Should I add a part to the book also? IMO, no. Too low-level. Pimp up the javadoc a little and it is good to go I'd say. > Make setting the start and stop row for a specific prefix easier > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-11990 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11990 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Client > Reporter: Niels Basjes > Attachments: HBASE-11990-20140916.patch > > > If you want to set a scan from your application to scan for a specific row > prefix this is actually quite hard. > As described in several places you can set the startRow to the prefix; yet > the stopRow should be set to the prefix '+1' > If the prefix 'ASCII' put into a byte[] then this is easy because you can > simply increment the last byte of the array. > But if your application uses real binary rowids you may run into the scenario > that your prefix is something like > {code}{ 0x12, 0x23, 0xFF, 0xFF }{code} Then the increment should be {code}{ > 0x12, 0x24, 0x00, 0x00 }{code} > I have prepared a proposed patch that makes setting these values correctly a > lot easier. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)