table replica edit

Edits the properties of a replica of a MapR Database binary or JSON table.

Permissions Required

To run this command, your user ID must have the following permissions:

  • readAce and writeAce on both the source volume and the target volume
  • lookupdir on directories in the paths of both tables
  • readperm and replperm permissions on the source table
NOTE The mapr user is not treated as a superuser. MapR Database does not allow the mapr user to run this command unless that user is given the relevant permission or permissions with access-control expressions.

Syntax

CLI
maprcli table replica edit
  -path <table path>
  -replica <replica table path>
  [ -newreplica <renamed table path> ]
  [ -columns <comma separated list of <family>[:<column>]> ]
  [ -throttle <throttle replication ops> ]
  [ -networkencryption <enable on-wire encryption> ]
  [ -synchronous <is synchronous replication> ]
  [ -networkcompression <on-wire compression type: off|on|lzf|lz4|zlib> ]
REST
curl -k -X POST 
  'http[s]://<host>:<port>/rest/table/replica/edit?path=<path>&replica=<path>&<parameters>' 
  -u <username>:<password>
NOTE The mapr user is not treated as a superuser. MapR Database does not allow the mapr user to run this command unless that user is given the relevant permission or permissions with access-control expressions.

Parameters

Parameter Description
path

The path to the source table that you want to replicate.

  • For a path on the local cluster, start the path at the volume mount point. For example, for a table named testsrc under a volume with a mount point at /volume1, specify the following path: /volume1/testsrc
  • For a path on a remote cluster, you must also specify the cluster name in the path. For example, for a table named customersrc under volume1 in the sanfrancisco cluster, specify the following path:/mapr/sanfrancisco/volume1/customersrc
replica

The path to the replica.

  • For a table on the local cluster, start the path at the volume mount point. For example, for a table named testdst under a volume with a mount point at /volume1, specify the following path: /volume1/testdst
  • For a table on a remote cluster, you must also specify the cluster name in the path. For example, for a table named customerdst under volume1 in the sanfrancisco cluster, specify the following path: /mapr/sanfrancisco/volume1/customerdst
newreplica

The updated replica path due to a renamed replica table, renamed cluster, or changed table path. The table specified in the replica parameter and the table specified in the newreplica parameter must have the same UUID.
columns

By default, all columns in the source table are replicated.

If you do not want to replicate all columns in the table, you can specify specific columns to replicate:
For binary tables
Provide a comma-separated list of column families or columns from a certain column family (column family:qualifier). For example, use the following syntax to replicate the column family purchases and the column stars in the reviews column family: -columns purchases,reviews:stars
NOTE While the column families that you specify must already exist in the source table, the columns that you specify do not have to exist in the destination table for replication to succeed. If the column is added at a later date, replication for that column will start at that time.
For JSON tables
Provide a comma-delimited list of fields to replicate. Include the full field path for each field.

Example

Suppose your table contains documents that contain this general structure:

{
     "_id" : "ID",
     "a" :
          {
               "b" : 
                    {
                         "c" : "value",
                    },
               "e" : "value"
          }
}

To replicate fields a, c, and e, you would specify these field paths:

a,a.b.c,a.e
Do not use quotation marks and do not include spaces after commas.

Suppose now that a.b and a.e were custom column families. You want to replicate only the default column family and column family a.e. To do so, you would specify field paths like this:

",a.e"

The empty string before the comma indicates the default column family.
throttle A Boolean value that specifies whether or not to throttle replication operations. Throttle the replication stream to minimize the impact of the replication process on incoming operations during periods of heavy load. The values are true or false. No throttle (false) is the default.
networkencryption A Boolean value that specifies whether or not to enable on-wire encryption. The values are true or false. No encryption (false) is the default. If you set this to true, the local cluster and any other cluster that is part of the replication process must be enabled for security.
synchronous

A Boolean value that specifies whether replication is synchronous or asynchronous. The values are true or false. Asynchronous (false) is the default.
networkcompression

The type of on-wire compression.

The types are:

  • off
  • on (default)
  • lzf
  • lz4. This is the default
  • zlib

lz4 is the default compression which it set by parameter values on or lz4.

Examples

Changes the replica path to reflect that replica t2dst is renamed to t2dst_new:

CLI
maprcli table replica edit -path /volume1/t1src -replica /volume1/t2dst \
  -newreplica /volume1/t2dst_new
REST
curl -k -X POST \
  'https://r1n1.sj.us:8443/rest/table/replica/edit?path=%2Fvolume1%2Ft1&replica=%2Fvolume1%2Ft2&newreplica=%2Fvolume1%2Ft2_new' \
  -u mapr:mapr

Changes the column families to replicate:

CLI
maprcli table replica edit -path /volume1/custAsrc -replica /volume2/custAdst \
  -columns purchases, reviews, returns
REST
curl -k -X POST \
  'https://r1n1.sj.us:8443/rest/table/replica/edit?path=%2Fvolume1%2FcustAsrc&replica=%2Fvolume2%2FcustAdst&columns=purchases,reviews,returns' \
  -u mapr:mapr