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Jim Kellerman updated HADOOP-1531:
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    Attachment: eclipse.preferences

All my eclipse preferences. Certainly contains the formatting stuff but I did not see a way to just export the formatting stuff.

NOTE: This is for eclipse 3.2 and not eclipse-europa (3.3)


> Add RowFilter to HRegion.HScanner
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1531
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1531
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/hbase
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.0
>            Reporter: James Kennedy
>            Assignee: James Kennedy
>         Attachments: eclipse.preferences, RowFilter-v2.patch, RowFilter-v3.patch, RowFilter.patch
>
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> I've implemented a RowFilterInterface and a RowFilter implementation.  This is passed to the HRegion.HScanner via HClient.openScanner() though it is an entirely optional parameter.
> HScanner applies the filter in the next() call by iterating until it encounters a row that is not filtered by the RowFilter.  The filter applies criteria based on row keys and/or column data values.
> Null values are little tricky since the resultSet in that loop may represent nulls as absent columns or as DELETED_BYTES.  Nevertheless null cases are taken care of by the filter and you can for example retrieve all rows where column X = null.
> The initial RowFilter implementation is limited in several ways:
> * Equality test only with literal values. No !=, <, >, etc. No col1 == col2. This is a straight-up byte[] comparison.
> * Multiple column criteria are treated as an implicit conjunction, no disjunction possible.
> * row key criteria is a regular expression only
> * row key criteria is independent of column criteria. No "if rowkey.matches(A)  and col1==B"  although the interface is created to allow for that.
> But it should be easy to write an improved RowFilterInterface implementation to take care of most of the above without having to change code elsewhere.

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