https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Encoded-values-coming-back-from-HBase-API/m-p/115628#M78422 <P>Using the Knox gateway-shell to make requests to the HBase APIs, I receive values that are encoded in the response. Do I have to decode each value individually or is there a way to have all the values of the response decoded?</P> Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:28 GMT bbukacek 2016-04-26T09:03:28Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Encoded-values-coming-back-from-HBase-API/m-p/115628#M78422 <P>Using the Knox gateway-shell to make requests to the HBase APIs, I receive values that are encoded in the response. Do I have to decode each value individually or is there a way to have all the values of the response decoded?</P> Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:28 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Encoded-values-coming-back-from-HBase-API/m-p/115628#M78422 bbukacek 2016-04-26T09:03:28Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Encoded-values-coming-back-from-HBase-API/m-p/115629#M78423 <P>@<A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/138/bbukacek.html">Brad Bukacek Jr</A></P><P>By design, the HBase REST server returns content encoded response with base64. So all your content, like the column family, the qualifier and the raw content will be encoded. You just need to create a custom JSON deserializer.</P><P>Here is an awesome blog about this subject: <A href="https://blog.layer4.fr/2016/11/16/hbase-rest-api-knox-java/" target="_blank">https://blog.layer4.fr/2016/11/16/hbase-rest-api-knox-java/</A></P><P>There is a special section about your problem.</P> Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:53:16 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Encoded-values-coming-back-from-HBase-API/m-p/115629#M78423 cstanca 2016-12-28T23:53:16Z