I see. Though I don't know enough about these util method to appreciate it, yet, but thank very much for the clarification.
Ruby On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > You need that to work with the OPP since it checks that the string is UTF-8 > Valid. > > If you are using RP or BOP no need. > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ruby Stevenson <ruby...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> btw - the original code is in brisk repo: >> >> >> https://github.com/riptano/brisk/blob/master/src/java/src/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/fs/CassandraFileSystemThriftStore.java#L657 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > 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 >> > >> > > > > -- > http://twitter.com/tjake >
