[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-8074) Consolidate map-side features across mapreduce tools into a single place

["Nick Dimiduk (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-8074:
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TableInputFormat#setConf() already provides for most of these features. Why does TableMapReduceUtil#initTableMapperJob() override these settings by forcing inclusion of a Scan instance?
                
> Consolidate map-side features across mapreduce tools into a single place
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-8074
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8074
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: mapreduce, Usability
>            Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
>
> The mapreduce tools support a similar but divergent set of features for mapping over KeyValue data:
>  * {{Export}} supports specifying a version-range window, application of a rowkey regex or prefix filter, and a "raw mode" that includes delete markers.
>  * {{Import}} can apply an arbitrary filter and can also apply a "transform", renaming column families in the emitted KeyValues.
>  * {{CopyTable}} allows specifying a version-range window, limiting to a fixed number of versions, a "raw mode", and column family transformation.
>  * {{WALPlayer}} supports reading a time-range.
>  * {{ImportTsv}} could incorporate a number of these features, especially the filter and transform capabilities, allowing a user to avoid implementing a custom mapper where the existing parser is sufficient, but for a slight massage of the data.
> The proposal is to create a single implementation for these features with a single configuration interface. Ideally, such an implementation would be exposed via the common utility classes as well (ie, IdentityTableMapper).

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