David, I beg to differ.
Setting it via the JVM property is a single change to make, whereas if
you change every single usage of getBytes(), you now forced the next
person to branch the code, change everything to UTF16 (hypothetical use
case) and continue a diverged codebase forever.
I would say that the reason that such a JVM property exists is to
alleviate you from having to make these code changes in the first place.
On 10/29/2012 12:00 PM, David Medinets wrote:
I like the idea of making the change explicit in the source code.
Setting the encoding in the jvm property would be easier but not as
explicit. I have a few dozen of the files changed. Today I have free
time since Hurricane Sandy has closed offices.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:39 AM, William Slacum
<[email protected]> wrote:
Isn't it easier to just set the JVM property `file.encoding`?
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Ed Kohlwey <[email protected]> wrote:
If you use a private static field in each class for the charset, it will
basically be a singleton because charsets are cached in char set.forname.
IMHO this is a somewhat cleaner approach than having lots of static imports
to utility classes with lots of constants in them.
On Oct 28, 2012 5:50 PM, "David Medinets" <[email protected]>
wrote:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-241?focusedCommentId=13449680&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13449680
In this comment, John mentioned that all getBytes() method calls
should be changed to use UTF8. There are about 1,800 getBytes() calls
and not all of them involve String objects. I am working on ways to
identify a subset of these calls to change.
I have created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-836 to
track this issue.
Should we create one static Charset object?
Class AccumuloDefaultCharset {
public static Charset UTF8 = Charset.forName("UTF8");
}
Should we use a static constant?
public static String UTF8 = "UTF8";
I have found one instance of getBytes() in InputFormatBase:
protected static byte[] getPassword(Configuration conf) {
return Base64.decodeBase64(conf.get(PASSWORD, "").getBytes());
}
Are there any reasons why I can't start specifying the charset? Is
UTF8 the right Charset to use? I am not an expert in non-English
charsets, so guidance would be welcome.
