TException: A long is exactly 8 bytes

[beiercai]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I can't seem to save a column defined as LongType

              <ColumnFamily Name="MyTest"
                ColumnType="Super"
                CompareWith="LongType"
                KeyCached="0.1"
                CompareSubcolumnsWith="BytesType" />

Here is the PHP code:

if (!PandraCore::auto('192.168.1.1.')) {
die(PandraCore::$lastError);
}

//super column name is a timestamp, and compare with longtype, so column names are sorted by time
$superName = time();
$keyId = '101';
$cfName = 'testCF';
$sc = new PandraSuperColumn($superName, $keyId, $cfName);
$sc->setColumnFamilyName('MyTest');
$sc->addColumn('http://facebook.com')->setValue('37');
$sc->addColumn('http://google.com')->setValue('42');
$sc->save();

I got this error back:

Array ( [0] => TException: A long is exactly 8 bytes )

Does Pandra convert an integer to long type Thrift expects?

[mjpearson]

No it's not implemented yet, but depending on your architecture it can be set via pack() ...

eg: 32-bit big-endian : $time = pack("NN", time(), 0);

and then to extract, the converse 32-bit unpack... $timeUnpacked = array_pop(unpack('N', $time));

http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.pack.php

Sorry there's not a patch yet for this.

[beiercai]

Thanks, that worked!

Any plan to support it in the future? it's just a bit strange to deal with byte stream on a high layer.

[mjpearson]

There will be a solution in place for the 0.3 release, it's currently only stubbed in the column container class