[jira] [Updated] (ACCUMULO-697) Break Scanner parameterization from Key,Value to Key,{Something}

["Christopher Tubbs (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christopher Tubbs updated ACCUMULO-697:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 1.5.0)
    
> Break Scanner parameterization from Key,Value to Key,{Something}
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>                 Key: ACCUMULO-697
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-697
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Josh Elser
>            Assignee: Josh Elser
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> When writing a custom iterator, many times the iterator has some semantic knowledge of what each Key/Value being returned actually means (e.g. A word count could be returning Key/Value but really is returning an Integer/Long count in the Value). This forces the client to know what is going to be returned and handle the cast/transformation.
> I believe it should be fairly straightforward to encapsulate this transformation inside the Accumulo client code. I plan on investigating the possibility of changing the ScannerBase impl, or perhaps making a TypedScannerBase, in which the iterator at the "top" of the stack for a scan can return something other than a Value to the client.

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