/** * Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.index.client; import java.io.Serializable; import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan; import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.index.Constants; /** * While scan the index(s) to be used can be explicitly passed from client application. Objects of * IndexExpression can specify the index(s) details. * @see SingleIndexExpression * @see MultiIndexExpression * @see NoIndexExpression * @see Scan#setAttribute(String, byte[]) * @see Constants#INDEX_EXPRESSION * @see IndexUtils#toBytes(IndexExpression) */ public interface IndexExpression extends Serializable { }