[jira] Created: (HBASE-2323) filter.RegexStringComparator does not work in presence of the byte 0xA

["Benoit Sigoure (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

filter.RegexStringComparator does not work in presence of the byte 0xA
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                 Key: HBASE-2323
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2323
             Project: Hadoop HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: filters
    Affects Versions: 0.20.3
            Reporter: Benoit Sigoure
            Assignee: Benoit Sigoure


I'm trying to use {{RegexStringComparator}} in conjunction with {{RowFilter}}.  One of my row keys contained the byte 0xA, which turns out to be the ASCII code for the newline character (\n).  When the row key is converted to a string in order to use the regexp facility of the Java standard library, it becomes a string containing two lines and my regexp does not match.

I believe the solution is to compile the regexp with the {{DOTALL}} flag.  Luckily, this flag can be "passed" by the client by prefixing the regexp with {{(?s)}} so people working with an older version of HBase can work around this issue without having to upgrade.

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