Thrift getRows API with column filtering?

2014-11-21 Thread JM Tremblay
Hi, I'm using the node.js HBase Thrift client. I can use getRows() to fetch specific rows with all their columns or getRowsWithColumns() to specify the columns or column families to return. But I can't figure out how to specify columns starting with a given prefix, as it seems to be possible wit

Re: Thrift getRows API with column filtering?

2014-11-22 Thread Wilm Schumacher
Hi, 1.) the plan with minimizing the number of column families is very wise 2.) which API you are using? thrift or thrift2? The original (or old) thrift api does not seem to support your plan. However, it is supported. See e.g. http://hbase.apache.org/book/thrift.html the thrift2-api seems to