Hello,
I have used Hbase before, but many months back. So this is basic
beginner's questions.
The HBase thrift api for get getRow is

list<TCell> get(
/** name of table */
1:Text tableName,

/** row key */
2:Text row,

/** column name */
3:Text column
) throws (1:IOError io)

If my rows keys are binary data (the row keys and cell values will all
be binary),  can I still use this API?
Is Text much like C++'s string(which can be used to hold binary data)?

Thank you
Saptarshi

Hey Saptarshi!
Don't know too much about the current status of thrift, but Text can hold
byte[], it is a Hadoop class
which is like a fancier version of a String.
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/Text.html

--
Regards Erik

Thank you. The status of hbase thrift is undefined? Let ne ask me this
as new question.

On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Erik Holstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Saptarshi!
> Don't know too much about the current status of thrift, but Text can hold byte[], it is a Hadoop class
> which is like a fancier version of a String.
> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/Text.html
>
> --
> Regards Erik
>

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 17:27, Saptarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you. The status of hbase thrift is undefined? Let ne ask me this
> as new question.

You might want to take a look at HBASE-1744[1]. Work is currently
being done to bring the Thrift API up do date and to match the current
Java API. Any comments are welcome. A new patch should be available in
the next few days.

The current Thrift API won't be maintained anymore and will probably
be removed in HBase 0.22. "Text" will be gone too as it is only an
alias for "binary".

Cheers,
Lars

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1744

Thanks for the heads up.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Lars Francke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 17:27, Saptarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thank you. The status of hbase thrift is undefined? Let ne ask me this
>> as new question.
>
> You might want to take a look at HBASE-1744[1]. Work is currently
> being done to bring the Thrift API up do date and to match the current
> Java API. Any comments are welcome. A new patch should be available in
> the next few days.
>
> The current Thrift API won't be maintained anymore and will probably
> be removed in HBase 0.22. "Text" will be gone too as it is only an
> alias for "binary".
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1744
>