hbase shell snippet for "get" ing records with binary keys

[Douglas Campbell <de...@yahoo.com>]

If I have a record whose key is binary i.e. when you do a scan and you see 
something like

\xFF\xD3\xEF\xB4\xEA

as the key

How to pass it back into hbase shell to do a get?

I tried importing Bytes class but Bytes.toBytes(above string) yields a java 
array which can't be used as an arg to get.

-Doug



      

Re: hbase shell snippet for "get" ing records with binary keys

[Andrey Stepachev <oc...@gmail.com>]

Sorry, function should be

def fetch(table, id, args = {})
   get table, String.from_java_bytes(Bytes.toBytes(id)), args
end

Re: hbase shell snippet for "get" ing records with binary keys

[Andrey Stepachev <oc...@gmail.com>]

And of course, you can use the Power of Ruby:

type in shell:

def fetch(table, id, args = {})
   get table, String.from_java_bytes(Writables.getBytes(id)), args
end

then you can use

> fetch 'my.table', 1234, { other get parameters }


2010/8/10 Douglas Campbell <de...@yahoo.com>:
> If I have a record whose key is binary i.e. when you do a scan and you see
> something like
>
> \xFF\xD3\xEF\xB4\xEA
>
> as the key
>
> How to pass it back into hbase shell to do a get?
>
> I tried importing Bytes class but Bytes.toBytes(above string) yields a java
> array which can't be used as an arg to get.
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
>
>

Re: hbase shell snippet for "get" ing records with binary keys

[Stack <st...@duboce.net>]

hbase> get TABLENAME, "\xFF\xD3\xEF\xB4\xEA"

... should work.  Use double-quotes rather than single.  (j)irb should
do the right thing (tm) with it.

St.Ack

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Douglas Campbell <de...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I have a record whose key is binary i.e. when you do a scan and you see
> something like
>
> \xFF\xD3\xEF\xB4\xEA
>
> as the key
>
> How to pass it back into hbase shell to do a get?
>
> I tried importing Bytes class but Bytes.toBytes(above string) yields a java
> array which can't be used as an arg to get.
>
> -Doug
>
>
>
>
>