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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:40:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: Nested Entity Implementation?
From: Jason Huang <jason.huang@icare.com>
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I see.  Thanks for bringing the utility class to my attention.

Jason

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:32 AM, anil gupta <anilgupta84@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> AFAIK, you need to write custom serialization and deserialization code for
> this kind of stuff. For any primitive data type and some others like
> BigDecimal, HBase has a utility class named as
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes. You might take advantage of this class
> in your code if you can.
>
> HTH,
> Anil
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Jason Huang <jason.huang@icare.com> wrote:
>
>> I think I should clarify my question - is there any existing tool to
>> help convert these type of nested entities to byte arrays so I can
>> easily write them to the column, or do I need to write my own
>> serialization/deserialization?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jason Huang <jason.huang@icare.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am designing a HBase table for user activity and I want to use a
>> > nested entity to store the login information as following:
>> >
>> > (1) Define a column qualifier named "user login" use this as a nested
>> entity;
>> >
>> > (2) This nested entity will have the following attributes:
>> >      total # of login
>> >      time of log in #1
>> >      time of log in #2
>> >      ....
>> >      time of last log in
>> >
>> > (3) Each attributes in the step above (except for the total # of
>> > login) will be another nested entity, which will include the following
>> > attributes:
>> >      time of log out
>> >      user log in IP
>> >      browser used
>> >      ......
>> >
>> > My question is - is there any handy API that will allow us to write
>> > these type of nested entity to the column in the table? I looked at
>> > the HTable.put method but that appears to only accept a byte code as
>> > input value. We could implement the nested entity to a class with
>> > attributes and nested objects but I am not sure how to write these
>> > data to the table.  I tried to search online but couldn't find any
>> > good post talking about how to implement a nested entity (there are
>> > some posts out there talking about using this type of design, though).
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Jason
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
> Anil Gupta