No problem. Also, instead of just dumping the value of the created column, I actually dump the last three versions of the modified column, just because its cool.
For completeness, I, roughly, did the following to get Thrift working:
- Downloaded and built Thrift (using SVN.. 2012-11-15/1429368).
- Ran "thrift -gen py <thrift file>" from the path that I wanted the Python interface files created in.
- Installed "thrift" package via PIP.
I ran the the following code from the root of the generated files.
from thrift.transport import TSocket
from thrift.transport import TTransport
from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol
from hbase import Hbase
from hbase.ttypes import *
from random import randrange
from pprint import pprint
socket = TSocket.TSocket('localhost', 9090)
transport = TTransport.TBufferedTransport(socket)
transport.open()
protocol = TBinaryProtocol.TBinaryProtocol(transport)
client = Hbase.Client(protocol)
table_name = 'test_table'
row_key = 'test_row1'
colfamily1 = 'test_colfamily1'
column1 = 'test_col1'
fullcol1 = ('%s:%s' % (colfamily1, column1))
value = ('%d' % randrange(1000, 9999))
num_versions = 3
try:
desc = ColumnDescriptor(colfamily1)
client.createTable(table_name, [desc])
except AlreadyExists:
pass
client.mutateRow(table_name, row_key, [Mutation(column=fullcol1, value=value)], {})
results = client.getVer(table_name, row_key, fullcol1, num_versions, {})
pprint(results)
Output:
$ python test.py
[TCell(timestamp=1357463438825L, value='9842')]
$ python test.py
[TCell(timestamp=1357463439700L, value='9166'),
TCell(timestamp=1357463438825L, value='9842')]
$ python test.py
[TCell(timestamp=1357463440359L, value='2978'),
TCell(timestamp=1357463439700L, value='9166'),
TCell(timestamp=1357463438825L, value='9842')]