[jira] [Reopened] (HBASE-5548) Add ability to get a table in the shell

["Zhihong Yu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5548?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Zhihong Yu reopened HBASE-5548:
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I don't see Hadoop QA report on this JIRA.
I can reproduce the following test failure:
{code}
  testRunShellTests(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.TestShell): (RuntimeError) Shell unit tests failed. Check output file for details.
{code}
                
> Add ability to get a table in the shell
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-5548
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5548
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: shell
>            Reporter: Jesse Yates
>            Assignee: Jesse Yates
>             Fix For: 0.96.0
>
>         Attachments: ruby_HBASE-5528-v0.patch, ruby_HBASE-5548-v1.patch, ruby_HBASE-5548-v2.patch, ruby_HBASE-5548-v3.patch, ruby_HBASE-5548-v5.patch
>
>
> Currently, all the commands that operate on a table in the shell first have to take the table as name as input. 
> There are two main considerations:
> * It is annoying to have to write the table name every time, when you should just be able to get a reference to a table
> * the current implementation is very wasteful - it creates a new HTable for each call (but reuses the connection since it uses the same configuration)
> We should be able to get a handle to a single HTable and then operate on that.

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