It seems that jRuby-based HBase shell does not handle ASCII-8bit correctly. Is there any work-around for this?
My locale settings are all en_US. LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ding Haifeng <hank.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > @stack: Thanks for explanation. I understand the difference between single > quotes and double quotes. Using single quote to interpret the string > literally is not the behavior I expect. I want the bytes exactly > represented by the escaped hexadecimal strings. > > @Ted: I filed a JIRA issue at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8865 . I also added some more > observations there. > > > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > >> Try single quotes. The shell (ruby) may be trying to 'help you' by >> interpreting your hex. >> >> hbase(main):018:0> print "\x20\n" >> >> hbase(main):019:0> print '\x20\n' >> \x20\nhbase(main):020:0> >> >> See how w/ double quotes it prints space and new line where when I >> single-quote it, it prints out the literal? >> >> At the end of the shell help it says: >> >> "If you are using binary keys or values and need to enter them in the >> shell, use >> double-quote'd hexadecimal representation. For example: >> >> hbase> get 't1', "key\x03\x3f\xcd" >> hbase> get 't1', "key\003\023\011" >> hbase> put 't1', "test\xef\xff", 'f1:', "\x01\x33\x40" >> ..." >> >> Looks like we need to add a line which says if you are using hex, to avoid >> ruby's interpreting your intent, single-quote. >> >> St.Ack >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ding Haifeng <hank.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi, all. >> > >> > When I tried to do a manual region split from HBase shell, I found that >> > split command acts incorrectly with hex split keys. >> > >> > For example, I executed >> > >> > hbase(main):003:0> split 'tsdb', "\x00\x00\xC3" >> > >> > but table 'tsdb' actually split at "\x00\x00\xEF\xBF\xBD" >> > >> > I'm running Hbase 0.94.8, r1485407, both server-side and client-side. >> > >> > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Ding Haifeng >> > >> > > > > -- > Ding Haifeng > -- Ding Haifeng
