Hi Dean, Yes you can do that. See a (slightly outdated) oost about them here http://hbaseblog.com/2010/11/30/hbase-coprocessors/
Think of Coprocessors at their simplest level as triggers before and after basically every event that can happen on the server side. You can use this as you intended to merge values or even replace them completely. Lars On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> wrote: >> Cool, so the coprocessor will feed the value in the database to me and the >> value that is coming in just before it is written? >> >> With bytes, I am using serialized json so the example still applies >> perfectly where I could merge the results in the coprocessor and the >> coprocessor writes the final result. Would that work? If so, I will >> definitely check it out. > > It is my understanding that yes, it would work like that at a high level. > > J-D >
