HBase Shell - Add support for formatting row keys before output
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Key: HBASE-4818
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4818
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: shell
Reporter: Eran Kampf
Priority: Trivial
As many HBase users use binary row keys rather than strings to optimize memory
consumption displaying an escaped string in the HBase shell isn't useful (and
takes a lot of screen space)
Allowing user to provide a row key formatter as part of the scan\get commands
would allow developers to display the row key in a way thats makes sense for
them.
Example:
scan 'stats', { ROWFORMATTER => MyRowFormatter.new }
The row formatter simply gets the bytes array key and formats it to a string.
Its an easy change tomake with simple monkey-patching of the shell commands but
I would be happy to see it as part of the shell itself.
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