[jira] Updated: (HBASE-1990) Add methods accepting strings for family/qualifier in client

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stack updated HBASE-1990:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 0.20.3)

Moving out of 0.20.3  I like Lars suggestion and looks like it would work after some discussion but this change in API better belongs in 0.21 IMO. Since 0.21 is not too far away, I'd say no harm punting it till then.  If anyone disagrees, please put it back into 0.20.3.

> Add methods accepting strings for family/qualifier in client 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-1990
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1990
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: client
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.0
>            Reporter: Doug Meil
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: TestHTableGenerics.java
>
>
> Consider the following client code...
> 	byte b[] = result.getValue( Bytes.toBytes("family"), Bytes.toBytes("qualifier") );
>         put.add( Bytes.toBytes("family"), Bytes.toBytes("qualifer"), Bytes.toBytes( "value")  );
> ... the requirement to supply family and qualifiers as bytes causes code to get cluttered and verbose.  At worst, it scares peoples un-necessarily about HBase development, and at best, developers inevitably will get tired of doing all this casting and then add their own wrapper classes around the HBase client to make their code more readable.
> I would like to see something like this in the API...
> 	byte b[] = result.getValue( "family"), "qualifier" );
>         put.add( "family", "qualifer", Bytes.toBytes( "value")  );
> ... where the Hbase client can perform the required Bytes.toBytes() conversion behind the scenes.

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