Example custom formatter for avro using example customer profiles.
The HBase shell allows the use of a Custom Formatter for interpreting and presenting binary types. This example demonstrates the use of a Custom Formatter that deserializes a customer profile avro type and displays the otherwise obsfuscated content to to the user within the HBase shell.
mvn compile mvn test mvn package
Copy the jar to a known location in the filesystem on the machine from which you will use the HBase Shell.
Register the jar with the HBase Shell by starting the hbase shell (e.g. ./hbase shell).
hbase(main):001:0> require 'customerprofileformatter-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar' => true
You can now use the formatter to inspect your data using the following syntax.
scan 'profiles', { COLUMNS => 'profile:data:c(Java::ExampleAvro::CustomerProfileFormatter).format'}
get 'profiles', 'user-1' , 'profile:data:c(Java::ExampleAvro::CustomerProfileFormatter).format'
