Hwrapper

Python 3 wrapper for Hbase REST


Keywords
encoding, i18n, xml
Licenses
AFL-3.0/CC-BY-SA-2.5
Install
pip install Hwrapper==0.2

Documentation

Hwrapper is python 3+ wrapper for hbase REST.

(pypi  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Hwrapper/0.2 )



Common Usage :

start your hbase rest  $bin/hbase rest start -p 9300    (Default port is 8080)
check out wiki for more detailed tutorial.

Creating a table
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hwrapper=Hwrapper()
hwrapper.connectionParameters("host","port", False)     // third argument set to false if you are not using https
hwrapper.setAcceptType("json")
columnFamilies={"cf","cf1"}
hwrapper.create_table("table_name",columnFamilies)


get Row data by ID  (decoded base64 values)
-------------------------------------------

hwrapper.get_RowBy_ID("0000000-120529115546748") // outputs list of dicts, dicts contain column names and values


Dropping a table
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hwrapper.drop_table("table_name")


Displaying table schema 
-----------------------

hwrapper.table_schema("table_name")


Listing all tables from hbase
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hwrapper.list_tables()


Scanner creation and deletion: (Filter by single column value)
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hwrapper.get_RowBy_Column(columnvalue,"tablename")

jsonRows=json.loads(hwrapper.getNext())
while(jsonRows.get("status")!='204'):
     jsonRows=json.loads(hwrapper.getNext())
     if(jsonRows.get("status")=='204'):
        break
     print(jsonRows)
hwrapper.deleteScanner()



Deleting scanner
----------------------------
  hwrapper.deleteScanner()