[GitHub] [accumulo] ivakegg commented on issue #3732: We really need to use formatters

["ivakegg (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

ivakegg commented on issue #3732:
URL: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/3732#issuecomment-1708576907

   1) "The feature adds a lot of complexity, for a small convenience."  I strongly disagree with this.  For all of those that have to maintain our systems, it becomes crutial to be able to read the key-value pairs in a human readable form.  A typical example is where the value is encoded as a protobuf which is complete unreadable without a formatter.
   2) "Limited maintenance functionality."  I strongly disagree with this.  The shell is the main utility used by all kinds of scripts throughout our systems including monitoring to be able to scan various tables and verify certain activities are being performed properly.  For example listing the ongoing scans, verifying splits are being created on our sharded tables, generating alerts when too many files are backed up on a tablet, not to mention the ability to track down various problems in our system related to queries or bad data.
   3) The shell is a general purpose tool used for maintenance.  I not sure why you don't think this is the case.
   
   I am ok if we split out the shell into a separate project, but we require this capability and will not be able to migrate to 3.x unless this functionality still exists.


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