Nope. That strikes me as odd, too.
On Sep 29, 2011 10:58 AM, "Ruby Stevenson" <ruby...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all
>
> I am reading some code related to encoding a string representing the
> file path into a row key, it essentially went through a series of
> transformation like this:
>
> String filepath = "/x/y/z";
> ByteBuffer bb = ByteBufferUtil.bytes(filepath);
> String s = FBUtilities.hashToBigInteger(bb).toString(16);
> return ByteBufferUtil.bytes(s);
>
> why hashToBigInteger and then hex string? is this a convention/idiom
> of generating row key this way?
>
> thanks
>
> Ruby
