I have a table with only one column family, this column has a TTL of 172800 SECONDS (2 DAYS), I need some data to be deleted before the deadline. If I want the value to expire in 5mins, I calculate the expiry time and set the insert date to be 5 mins before expiry time.
I am using the HBase Client for Java to do this.
But the value doesn't seem to expire. Any suggestions on the same?
I used cbt to create the table:
cbt createtable my_table families=cf1:maxage=2d
HColumnDescriptor:
{NAME => 'cf1', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', VERSIONS => '2147483647', IN_MEMORY => 'false', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'FALSE', DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', TTL => '172800 SECONDS (2 DAYS)', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', BLOCKCACHE => 'true', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0'}
Java Code:
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.BigtableConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Admin;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Put;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
public class BigTable {
public static void main(String... args) {
String projectId = "my-gcp-project-id";
String instanceId = "my-bigtable-instance-id";
String tableId = "my-table"; // my-bigtable-table-id
try (Connection connection = BigtableConfiguration.connect(projectId, instanceId)) {
try (Table table = connection.getTable(TableName.valueOf(tableId))) {
HTableDescriptor hTableDescriptor = table.getTableDescriptor();
hTableDescriptor.setCompactionEnabled(true);
byte[] cf1 = Bytes.toBytes("cf1");
byte[] rk1 = Bytes.toBytes("rowkey1");
byte[] q1 = Bytes.toBytes("q1");
HColumnDescriptor cfDescriptor1 = hTableDescriptor.getFamily(cf1);
System.out.println("\n " + cfDescriptor1);
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar now1 = Calendar.getInstance();
now1.setTime(now.getTime());
long nowMillis = now.getTimeInMillis(); // Current time
now.add(Calendar.SECOND, cfDescriptor1.getTimeToLive()); // Adding 172800 SECONDS (2 DAYS) to current time
long cfTTLMillis = now.getTimeInMillis(); // Time the values in the column family will expire at
now1.add(Calendar.SECOND, 300); // Adding 300 secs (5mins)
long expiry = now1.getTimeInMillis(); // Time the value should actually live
long creationTime = nowMillis + cfTTLMillis - expiry;
System.out.println("\n Date nowMillis:\t" + new Date(nowMillis) + "\n Date creationTime:\t" + new Date(creationTime) + "\n Date cfTTLMillis:\t" + new Date(cfTTLMillis));
//Add Data
Put p = new Put(rk1, creationTime);
p.addColumn(cf1, q1, Bytes.toBytes("CFExpiry_2d_ExpTime_5mins"));
//p.setTTL(creationtime); // What does this do?
table.put(p);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}}
Calculated dates:
Date nowMillis: Wed Oct 03 10:34:15 EDT 2018
Date creationTime: Fri Oct 05 10:29:15 EDT 2018
Date cfTTLMillis: Fri Oct 05 10:34:15 EDT 2018
The Value is inserted correctly with the correct calculated dates. But doesn't seem to expire? Please correct my concepts if wrong.
Edit:
After the below correction in date calculation, the values do expire.
long nowMillis = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000;
long cfTTLMillis = nowMillis - cfDescriptor1.getTimeToLive();
long creationTime = (cfTTLMillis + 300) * 1000;