On 11/08/2009 01:54 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:28:28 -0500, Jeff Garzik<jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A command line client for chunkd, chcli, was just committed. It offers
the ability to GET (dumps to stdout) and PUT (input from cmd line arg).
I wonder how you square that with the recent move away from ASCII keys.
We didn't move away from ASCII keys, we added support for
non-ASCII-hexidecimal keys :)
The chcli '-k' option enables command line use of fully binary keys.
But just like every other key/value store out there, people often use
printable strings as keys, because it's an easy model for them to use.
So we enable that easy model, too.
This is somewhat analagous to db_dump[1], where full binary I/O is
supported... but because of common usage, the ability to load text
databases is also present.
In a different perspective, chunkd recently gained the ability to
support arbitrary ASCII keys, too.
Jeff
[1]
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_reference/C/db_load.html
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