Cannot write integers as values

[arusahni]

Hi, I'm currently trying to write an int as a value, but I cannot as it appears that pyaccumulo is assuming that all values are strings:

https://github.com/accumulo/pyaccumulo/blob/master/pyaccumulo/proxy/ttypes.py#L412

Is this intentional?

[jatrost]

This is correct. The code you linked to is the thrift auto generated code.

Accumulo values are byte arrays. In order to store ints/floats you have to chose how to serialize them. For small numbers it makes sense to serialize as strings (when most numbers are less than 10,000). For larger numbers it make sense to serialize as 32 bit int or 64 bit float.

[arusahni]

Thanks!