I'm not sure I understand why using this with multiple column families prevents you from converting it. Could you clarify this?
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Christian Decker < decker.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having quite a dilemma with the CompareWith attribute. The Problem is > that I have numeric IDs that I'd like to use as row keys, only that I also > have to offer a possibility to let users input them from std input. Since I > cannot ask my users to input an 8byte sequence representing the ID they'd > like, I was about to turn to UTF8, when I remembered that they are compared > lexicographically, so that 100 actually comes before 2, which kills key > slices. Also I cannot just code a converter in since this is supposed to be > a used with multiple columnfamilies, so just converting an integer read into > 8bytes isn't going to work either. > Any tricks for this one? > > Regards, > Chris >
