[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-6894) Adding metadata to a table in the shell is both arcane and painful

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stack commented on HBASE-6894:
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On the CONFIG, its just wrong but am good w/ dealing w/ this in another issue.  Other answers are good.  Thanks.  Post new patch and I'll take it for another spin.  This is very nice improvement Sergey.  Lets get it in.
                
> Adding metadata to a table in the shell is both arcane and painful
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>                 Key: HBASE-6894
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6894
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: shell
>    Affects Versions: 0.96.0
>            Reporter: stack
>            Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
>              Labels: noob
>         Attachments: HBASE-6894.patch, HBASE-6894.patch, HBASE-6894.patch, HBASE-6894-v2.patch, HBASE-6894-v3.1-squashed.patch, HBASE-6894-v3-squashed.patch, HBASE-6894-v4-squashed.patch
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> In production we have hundreds of tables w/ whack names like 'aliaserv', 'ashish_bulk', 'age_gender_topics', etc.  It be grand if you could look in master UI and see stuff like owner, eng group responsible, miscellaneous description, etc.
> Now, HTD has support for this; each carries a dictionary.  Whats a PITA though is adding attributes to the dictionary.  Here is what seems to work on trunk (though I do not trust it is doing the right thing):
> {code}
> hbase> create 'SOME_TABLENAME', {NAME => 'd', VERSION => 1, COMPRESSION => 'LZO'}
> hbase> # Here is how I added metadata
> hbase> disable 'SOME_TABLENAME'
> hbase> alter 'SOME_TABLENAME', METHOD => 'table_att', OWNER => 'SOMEON', CONFIG => {'ENVIRONMENT' => 'BLAH BLAH', 'SIZING' => 'The size should be between 0-10K most of the time with new URLs coming in and getting removed as they are processed unless the pipeline has fallen behind', 'MISCELLANEOUS' => 'Holds the list of URLs waiting to be processed in the parked page detection analyzer in ingestion pipeline.'}
> ...
> describe...
> enable...
> {code}
> The above doesn't work in 0.94.  Complains about the CONFIG, the keyword we are using for the HTD dictionary.
> It works in 0.96 though I'd have to poke around some more to ensure it is doing the right thing.
> But this METHOD => 'table_att' stuff is really ugly.... can we fix it?
> And I can't add table attributes on table create seemingly.
> A little bit of thought and a bit of ruby could clean this all up.

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