[jira] [Created] (HBASE-8866) Implement RegEx support for Column Qualifiers etc. in Thrift

["Lars George (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Lars George created HBASE-8866:
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             Summary: Implement RegEx support for Column Qualifiers etc. in Thrift
                 Key: HBASE-8866
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8866
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Thrift
            Reporter: Lars George


In the Thrift 1 definition file it says:

{noformat}
  /** 
   * Get a scanner on the current table starting at the specified row and
   * ending at the last row in the table.  Return the specified columns.
   *
   * @return scanner id to be used with other scanner procedures
   */
  ScannerID scannerOpen(
    /** name of table */
    1:Text tableName,

    /**
     * Starting row in table to scan.
     * Send "" (empty string) to start at the first row.
     */
    2:Text startRow,

    /**
     * columns to scan. If column name is a column family, all
     * columns of the specified column family are returned. It's also possible
     * to pass a regex in the column qualifier.
     */
    3:list<Text> columns,

    /** Scan attributes */
    4:map<Text, Text> attributes
  ) throws (1:IOError io)
{noformat}

Especially that "columns" can contain a regex for the qualifier. The code though does *not* support that currently:

{code}
    @Override
    public int scannerOpen(ByteBuffer tableName, ByteBuffer startRow,
        List<ByteBuffer> columns,
        Map<ByteBuffer, ByteBuffer> attributes) throws IOError {
      try {
        HTable table = getTable(tableName);
        Scan scan = new Scan(getBytes(startRow));
        addAttributes(scan, attributes);
        if(columns != null && columns.size() != 0) {
          for(ByteBuffer column : columns) {
            byte [][] famQf = KeyValue.parseColumn(getBytes(column));
            if(famQf.length == 1) {
              scan.addFamily(famQf[0]);
            } else {
              scan.addColumn(famQf[0], famQf[1]);
            }
          }
        }
        return addScanner(table.getScanner(scan));
      } catch (IOException e) {
        LOG.warn(e.getMessage(), e);
        throw new IOError(e.getMessage());
      }
    }
{code}

It parses the columns as literals, and sets up the Scan without supporting the appropriate QualifierFilter (or others) with RegexStringComparator. 

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