[jira] Commented: (HBASE-3246) Add API to Increment client class that increments rather than replaces the amount for a column when done multiple times

["Jonathan Gray (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-3246:
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Writing the javadoc for these methods, it seems like people could get easily confused.  Probably should have called the original method {{incrementColumn()}} and then just add a second method w/ a boolean about whether you want to sum with existing or replace existing.

Will put up a patch with what I came up based on my original description with but could use some input from others.

> Add API to Increment client class that increments rather than replaces the amount for a column when done multiple times
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-3246
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3246
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: client
>            Reporter: Jonathan Gray
>            Assignee: Jonathan Gray
>
> In the new Increment class, the API to add columns is {{addColumn()}}.  If you do this multiple times for an individual column, the amount to increment by is replaced.  I think this is the right way for this method to work and it is javadoc'd with the behavior.
> We should add a new method, {{incrementColumn()}} which will increment any existing amount for the specified column rather than replacing it.

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