Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Bigtable Client class LimitFilter.
A builder used to configure limit based filters.
Example:
use Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter;
$builder = Filter::limit();
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Bigtable \ Filter \ Builder
Methods
cellsPerRow
Matches only the first N cells of each row. If duplicate cells are
present, as is possible when using an
Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter\InterleaveFilter, each copy of the
cell is counted separately.
Example:
$limitFilter = $builder->cellsPerRow(2);
Parameter
Name
Description
count
int
The number of cells to limit to.
Returns
Type
Description
Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter\SimpleFilter
cellsPerColumn
Matches only the most recent N cells within each column. For
example, if count=2, this filter would match column foo:bar at
timestamps 10 and 9 skip all earlier cells in foo:bar, and then begin
matching again in column foo:bar2. If duplicate cells are present, as
is possible when using an
Google\Cloud\Bigtable\Filter\InterleaveFilter, each copy of the
cell is counted separately.
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