[jira] [Created] (HBASE-5585) Add a feature in shell to allow adding entries into META easily

["Shrijeet Paliwal (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Add a feature in shell to allow adding entries into META easily
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                 Key: HBASE-5585
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5585
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: shell
            Reporter: Shrijeet Paliwal
            Priority: Minor


>From IRC 

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sulabhc	St^Ack: that fixed most of the issue, just one last question, I removed some META entries how do I put it back ?
sulabhc	St^Ack: putting from Hbase-shell does not seem to be possible
St^Ack	sulabhc: it is but the content in .META. is serialized Writable of HRegionInfo.
St^Ack	Can you find the region in the fs that you want to put back?
St^Ack	If so, cat its .regioninfo
St^Ack	it has binary format of the HRegionInfo that needs to be in .META. and a txt version.
St^Ack 	You'll need to create an HRegionInfo, serialize it as bytes, and then put that into .META.
St^Ack	Look around in the catalog package, the MetaEditor class, for how to do this from java.
St^Ack	We should really make this easier to do in shell...
St^Ack	or look in bin to see how we do some of this via (j)ruby
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