[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-24901) Create versatile hbase-shell table formatter

["Michael Stack (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael Stack commented on HBASE-24901:
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Need pictures!

> Create versatile hbase-shell table formatter
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-24901
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24901
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: shell
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha-1
>            Reporter: Elliot Miller
>            Assignee: Elliot Miller
>            Priority: Major
>
> As a user, I would like a simple interface for shell output that can be expressed as a table (ie. output with a fixed number of columns and potentially many rows). To be clear, this new formatter is not specifically for HBase "tables." Table is used in the broader sense here.
> Goals
> - Do not require more than one output cell loaded in memory at a time
> - Support many implementations like aligned human-friendly tables, unaligned delimited, and JSON
> Non-goals
> - Don't load all the headers into memory at once.
>   - This may seem like a goal with merit, but we are unlikely to find a use case for this formatter with many columns. For example: since HBase tables aren't relational, our scan output will not have an output column for every HBase column. Instead, each output row will correspond to an HBase cell.



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