Re: attributes - basic question

2013-02-22 Thread James Taylor
. Pls try with ur use case and if finding any issue pls report -Anoop- From: Toby Lazar [tla...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:07 AM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: attributes - basic question Your last point was exactly what I was

RE: attributes - basic question

2013-02-22 Thread Anoop Sam John
@hbase.apache.org Subject: Re: attributes - basic question Your last point was exactly what I was looking for. I am thinking about using attributes along with coprocessors to impose some application-level authorization constraints. For example, in a get, I can pass username and credential

Re: attributes - basic question

2013-02-22 Thread Toby Lazar
Your last point was exactly what I was looking for. I am thinking about using attributes along with coprocessors to impose some application-level authorization constraints. For example, in a get, I can pass username and credential attributes and have the coprocessor filter results based on some r

Re: attributes - basic question

2013-02-22 Thread Harsh J
The attributes are serialized along with the base operation request. There's perhaps no immediate client-side usage of this, it is used by the Mutation class to set a cluster ID in HBase's Replication context: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hbase/trunk/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hba