I will give that a shot, seems that it will work fantastically, thanks! I will keep trolling JIRA then for something I feel I can get my feet wet with and contribute then.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Jason Fager <jfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Longs and Doubles are both 64-bit values and are pretty easily > convertible. Check out Double.doubleToLongBits and > Double.longBitsToDouble in the JDK; you can also read more about the > details of the conversion and get some pointers to some code in a post > I wrote last year: > http://jasonfager.com/770-lexi-sortable-number-strings/ (the emphasis > is on using doubles in key strings, but it should cover what you > need). > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Joseph Stein <crypt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So has anyone considered using the CounterColumn for summing? > > > > I wanted to-do this over the weekend until I realized it was only a long > :( > > so using it for things like duration (as an example for me this would > have > > been great to keep track of aggregate durations of ad impressions) are > not > > possible (or total costs when processing business workflows, etc,etc). > > > > I thought this might be a little more the speed of a first contribution > too > > :) and also helps out with more functionality since a lot of real time > > analytics will need double. > > > > Let me know, I think it is a good feature. > > > > Implementing it not sure we would want to break the thrift interface I > would > > suggest that I would create another interface for the double value? > > > > Under the hood of the thrift interface I was thinking of creating a > > CounterValue class and then setting the lValue or the dValue depending on > > which thrift function was called. I can update the thrift, add a sister > > function and re-work the entire code path of long CounterColumn.value > into > > CounterValue CounterColumn.value. > > > > /* > > Joe Stein > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc > > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > > */ > > > -- /* Joe Stein http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> */
