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Jesse Yates commented on HBASE-5548: ------------------------------------ {code} + #define the command name in 'where' namespace + #which actually just delegates to the shell instance {code} The 'where' namespace is just the variable name, which in our case is the IRB shell namespace. However, internally, hirb just has a reference to the an instance of the Shell class, to which it is delegating all the calls. I'll fix the commenting to make it clearer. {code} + ret = translate_hbase_exceptions(*args) { command(*args) } + return ret {code} Yeah, that is just cruft from debugging, where I dumping some output in the middle. bq. I don't see table.help. Is it missing from this patch? Yeah, completely forgot to implement it ;) I'll put it into the next version. There are still some issues around hiding methods, since we do actually get autocomplete, which is nice. I'm also working on a version that will format the output (as opposed to the raw stuff we see from a scan below). Here is what some shell output looks like with the current patch: {code} 1.9.2-p290 :001 > create 't', 'f' 0 row(s) in 1.7060 seconds 1.9.2-p290 :002 > t = get_table 't' 0 row(s) in 0.0770 seconds => #<Hbase::Table:0x6c6742d0 @table=#<Java::OrgApacheHadoopHbaseClient::HTable:0x59046270>> 1.9.2-p290 :003 > t.put 'r', 'f', 'value' 1.9.2-p290 :004 > t.scan => {"r"=>{"f:"=>"timestamp=1331353365816, value=value"}} {code} > Add ability to get a table in the shell > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-5548 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5548 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: shell > Reporter: Jesse Yates > Assignee: Jesse Yates > Fix For: 0.96.0 > > Attachments: ruby_HBASE-5528-v0.patch > > > Currently, all the commands that operate on a table in the shell first have > to take the table as name as input. > There are two main considerations: > * It is annoying to have to write the table name every time, when you should > just be able to get a reference to a table > * the current implementation is very wasteful - it creates a new HTable for > each call (but reuses the connection since it uses the same configuration) > We should be able to get a handle to a single HTable and then operate on that. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira