In some situations, you may want to read a range of data instead of specific rows and columns. For
this case, Fluo supports creating scanners over ranges. These scanners implement Java Iterable and
can be used with foreach loops. Scanners also support reading a subset of columns within a range.
To specify a range, Fluo has a simple POJO called Span. The name was chosen so it would not
conflict with Accumulo’s Range. Span has multiple static helper methods for creating common
ranges, like a range over all rows with a given prefix. Try the following exercise using scanners.
- Create transaction tx1
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0001:name:last to Kerman
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0001:name:first to Jebediah
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0001:attr:bravery to 5
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0002:name:last to Kerman
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0002:name:first to Bill
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0002:attr:bravery to 2
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0003:name:last to Kerman
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0003:name:first to Bob
- Using tx1 set kerbalnaut0003:attr:bravery to 1
- Using tx1 set bravery5:id:kerbalnaut0001 to 5
- Using tx1 set bravery2:id:kerbalnaut0002 to 2
- Using tx1 set bravery1:id:kerbalnaut0003 to 1
- Commit tx1
- Create snapshot s1
- Using s1 scan and print row kerbalnaut0002
- Using s1 scan and print row kerbalnaut0002 and column family name
- Using s1 scan rows with prefix kerbalnaut with columns name:first and attr:bravery
Scanners also read data using snapshot isolation. To show this, try modifying the exercise above to
change data after s1 is created but before the scans happen.