Jeremy, Binaries will more closely represent the internal representation on the Riak side, so that would probably be the preferred method.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Raymond <jeraym...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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/ > > > -- Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/
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