Cloud Bigtable Client - Class FamilyFilter (2.24.0)Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.
Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Bigtable Client class FamilyFilter.
A builder used to configure column family filters.
Example:
use Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter;
$builder = Filter::family();
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Bigtable \ Filter \ Builder
Methods
regex
Matches only cells from columns whose families satisfy the givenRE2 regex.
For technical reasons, the regex must not contain the:character, even
if it is not being used as literal. Note that, since column families
cannot contain the new line character\n, it is sufficient to use.as a full wildcard when matching column family names.
Example:
$familyFilter = $builder->regex('prefix.*');
Parameter
Name
Description
value
string
A regex value.
Returns
Type
Description
Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter\SimpleFilter
exactMatch
Matches only cells from columns whose families match the value.
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