I assume the preferred type to be binaries? -- Jeremy
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> wrote: > Jeremy, > > We're sorry you ran into this! Please file a bug report or or send a > pull-request to the Github project: > https://github.com/basho/riak-erlang-client/issues. We will be working to > resolve inconsistencies like these in the next dev cycle, across all our > supported clients. > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jeremy Raymond <jeraym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The Erlang PB client gives and takes secondary index information as >> binaries in some places and strings in others. For example >> riakc_pb_socket:get_index/4 wants the Index and Key as binaries. >> Retrieving the index information from the meta data of an object read >> out of Riak gives the Index and Key as strings. >> >> Can strings and binaries be used interchangeable for indexes >> throughout the API? Or is is such that the representation inside of a >> riak_obj is a strings, but API functions want it as binaries? >> >> The inconsistency is a bit of a nuisance. In testing of some of my >> application's logic I'm setting an index on a new object using binary >> values, I query the index using the binary values, but when I read it >> back they're strings. >> >> -- >> Jeremy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > > -- > Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> > Software Engineer > Basho Technologies, Inc. > http://basho.com/ > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
