Bigtable-front

Motivation

The standard Google cbt utility is not always convenient for viewing and editing binary data. Unlike cbt, bigtable-front has a GUI written in PyQt. Plus, the application deals with the YAML Schema that describes column families, possible columns, and how to treat the values.

Installing Dependencies and Supported Versions

Supported Python version 3.6.1+

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Use

Assuming raw data

row_key1
  cf:string_data
    "test"
  cf:int_data
    "\x00\x00\x059"
  cf:long_data
    "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x11\xdexJ"

The following YAML Schema should be created and set to the application:

---

cf:
  string_data:
    type: String
  int_data:
    type: JavaInteger
  long_data:
    type: JavaLong

After loading the schema, the application looks up data by row_key and deserializes it according to the schema. This way, new records can be created and existing records can be edited.