Can you describe the functionality you're after at a high level in terms of a use case (rather than an implementation idea/detail) and we can discuss any options wrt potential new features?
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:53 AM Cheyenne Forbes < cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd still need " *HRegion MyVar; ", *because I'd still need the name of > the region where the row of the id passed to the UDF is located and the > value returned my* "getFilesystem()" *of* "**HRegion", *what do you > recommend that I do? > > Regards, > > Cheyenne O. Forbes > > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Sergey Soldatov <sergeysolda...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> I mean you need to modify Phoenix code itself to properly support such >> kind of features. >> >> Thanks, >> Sergey >> >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Cheyenne Forbes < >> cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Could you explain a little more what you mean by that? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Cheyenne O. Forbes >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Sergey Soldatov < >>> sergeysolda...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I may be wrong, but you have chosen wrong approach. Such kind of >>>> integration need to be (should be) done on the Phoenix layer in the way >>>> like global/local indexes are implemented. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sergey >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Cheyenne Forbes < >>>> cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am creating a plugin that uses Lucene to index text fields and I >>>>> need to access *getConf()* and *getFilesystem()* of *HRegion, *the >>>>> Lucene indexes are split with the regions so I need " *HRegion >>>>> MyVar; ", *I am positive the UDF will run on the region server and >>>>> not the client*.* >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Cheyenne O. Forbes >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:22 PM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Shorter answer is "no". Your UDF may be executed on the client side >>>>>> as well (depending on the query) and there is of course no HRegion >>>>>> available from the client. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:10 AM Sergey Soldatov < >>>>>> sergeysolda...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Well, theoretically there is a way of having a coprocessor that will >>>>>>> keep static public map of current rowkey processed by Phoenix and the >>>>>>> correlated HRegion instance and get this HRegion using the key that is >>>>>>> processed by evaluate function. But it's a completely wrong approach for >>>>>>> both HBase and Phoenix. And it's not clear for me why SQL query may need >>>>>>> access to the region internals. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Sergey >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Cheyenne Forbes < >>>>>>> cheyenne.osanu.for...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> so there is no way of getting HRegion in a UDF? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >