The standard Google cbt utility is not always convenient for viewing and editing binary data. Unlike cbt, bigtable-front has a GUI written in PyQt. Plus, the application deals with the YAML Schema that describes column families, possible columns, and how to treat the values.

Supported Python version 3.6.1+

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Assuming raw data

row_key1
  cf:string_data
    "test"
  cf:int_data
    "\x00\x00\x059"
  cf:long_data
    "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x11\xdexJ"

The following YAML Schema should be created and set to the application:

---

cf:
  string_data:
    type: String
  int_data:
    type: JavaInteger
  long_data:
    type: JavaLong

After loading the schema, the application looks up data by row_key and deserializes it according to the schema. This way, new records can be created and existing records can be edited.