Brian/Russel,
That makes sense, I see now why only strings are supported.
However, your example of converting byte[] to String does not work
universally, one should always specify the charset when doing String/byte[]
conversions because otherwise a platform-dependent default will be chosen,
hence it's not portable. I found that ISO-8859-1 can handle arbitrary byte
arrays, so I'll use that to convert.
Thanks,
Kaspar
On Jul 16, 2012 3:51 PM, "Brian Roach" <ro...@basho.com> wrote:
>
> Kaspar -
>
> Russell and I got together and discussed this a little more this morning.
>
> The reason it's not exposed at the IRiakClient and RawClient interfaces
is because the underlying original HTTP client API doesn't support a byte
array as a key; it only uses String. Because of this, our IRiakObject
default implementation only takes a String for a key, and our annotation
processing only works with a String as well. It was all designed around
being protocol neutral to sit on top of both of the old clients.
>
> That being said, what does work perfectly fine is creating a new String
from the byte array. Java does the right thing and this works regardless of
whether you are using the PB or HTTP client:
>
> IRiakClient client = RiakFactory.pbcClient(); // or .httpClient()
> Bucket b = client.fetchBucket("this").execute();
>
> byte[] foo = { 0, 5, 120, 1 };
> String key = new String(foo);
>
> b.store(key, "this is my value").execute();
> IRiakObject o = b.fetch(key).execute();
> System.out.println(o.getValueAsString());
>
> client.shutdown();
>
> Thanks!
> Brian Roach
>
> On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:01 AM, Russell Brown wrote:
>
> > Hi Kaspar,
> >
> > Sorry for the slow reply.
> >
> > On 16 Jul 2012, at 07:49, Kaspar Thommen wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone please?
> >>
> >> On Jun 26, 2012 8:57 PM, "Kaspar Thommen" <kaspar.thom...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The high-level API in the Java client library (IRiakClient) does not
allow one to use byte[] arrays as keys, only Strings, whereas the
underlying PBC and http APIs (e.g. com.basho.riak.pbc.RiakClient) do, via
the fetch(ByteString, ...) methods. Any reason for this?
> >
> > Oversight or oversimplifying by me.
> >
> >
> >> Is it planned to add byte array keys to IRiakClient as well at some
point?
> >
> > We should. Please will you raise an issue for it on the RJC github
repo[1] to ensure we get to it?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Russell
> >
> > [1] Java client issues -
https://github.com/basho/riak-java-client/issues?direction=desc&sort=created&state=open
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kaspar
> >>
> >>
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