Usman, Look into the convert functions https://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/#convert_to-and-convert_from <https://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/#convert_to-and-convert_from>
—Andries > On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Usman Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > When we query an Hbase table like "select * from > hbasePluginName.`tableName`" using Restful APIs, the json it returns > contains values in the form of bytes. I know that all the values in my > hbase table were originally of String form but I do not know exact schema > (column families and column names) of my table. How can I convert those > bytes stored in strings back to my original strings. > > Thanks. > Usman Ali
