You can use getBytesUnsafe on the UTF8 column
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> Am 24.06.2014 um 09:13 schrieb Olivier Michallat
> <olivier.michal...@datastax.com>:
>
> Assuming we're talking about the DataStax Java driver:
>
> getBytes will throw an exception, because it validates that the column is of
> type BLOB. But you can use getBytesUnsafe:
>
> ByteBuffer b = row.getBytesUnsafe("aTextColumn");
> // if you want to check it:
> Charset.forName("UTF-8").decode(b);
>
> Regarding whether this will continue working in the future: from the driver's
> perspective, the fact that the native protocol uses UTF-8 is an
> implementation detail, but I doubt this will change any time soon.
>
>
>
>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:23 AM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good idea, bytes are merely processed by the server so you're saving a lot
>> of Cpu. AFAIK getBytes should work fine.
>>
>> Le 24 juin 2014 05:50, "Kevin Burton" <bur...@spinn3r.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> I'm building a webservice whereby I read the data from cassandra, then
>>> write it over the wire.
>>>
>>> It's going to push LOTS of content, and encoding/decoding performance has
>>> really bitten us in the future. So I try to avoid transparent
>>> encoding/decoding if I can avoid it.
>>>
>>> So right now, I have a huge blob of text that's a 'text' column.
>>>
>>> Logically it *should* be text, because that's what it is...
>>>
>>> Can I just keep it as text so our normal tools work on it, but get it as
>>> raw UTF8 if I call getBytes?
>>>
>>> This way I can call getBytes and then send it right over the wire as
>>> pre-encoded UTF8 data.
>>>
>>> ... and of course the question is whether it will continue working in the
>>> future :-P
>>>
>>> I'll write a test of it of course but I wanted to see what you guys thought
>>> of this idea.
>>>
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