Hi,

I found a strange problem with http REST post.

I post a dat through the following URL
"/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00d%00%06%1A%80/D:V"

and it works correctly, but when I query the same address using get,
I get the following xml result

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><CellSet><Row key="MTAwMF
8xXzEwMF8AAABkAAYa77+9"><Cell timestamp="1319664990595" column="RDpW">YWRi</Cell
></Row></CellSet>

The problem is if I decode the key, it is different from my post URL
"/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00%64%00%06%1A%EF%BF%BD/D:V
The same key displays from the hbase shell.

Somehow, the %80 is translated to %EF%BF%BD,
The strange thing is I can still get the same data using both of the URLs.

I am using the stable version 0.9.04.

Does anyone know what is causing this?
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Chong

You are running into encoding issues. Likely, you are posting data
that is not UTF-8 as UTF-8 (i.e. your post XML says cell value is
"utf-8" ... but it is not). This results in the data not being
recognized and replaced with ef bf bd which is the unicode replacement
character; Google for "ef bf bd unicode" for a lot of links related to
this.

Solution would be to convert your data into utf-8 before posting.
--Suraj

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, ChongQing Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a strange problem with http REST post.
>
> I post a dat through the following URL
> "/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00d%00%06%1A%80/D:V"
>
> and it works correctly, but when I query the same address using get,
> I get the following xml result
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><CellSet><Row key="MTAwMF
> 8xXzEwMF8AAABkAAYa77+9"><Cell timestamp="1319664990595" column="RDpW">YWRi</Cell
>></Row></CellSet>
>
> The problem is if I decode the key, it is different from my post URL
> "/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00%64%00%06%1A%EF%BF%BD/D:V
> The same key displays from the hbase shell.
>
> Somehow, the %80 is translated to %EF%BF%BD,
> The strange thing is I can still get the same data using both of the URLs.
>
> I am using the stable version 0.9.04.
>
> Does anyone know what is causing this?
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Chong
>
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks a lot for the answer. I will try it out.

Chong

-----Original Message-----
From: Suraj Varma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with url encode for http rest CLIENT

You are running into encoding issues. Likely, you are posting data
that is not UTF-8 as UTF-8 (i.e. your post XML says cell value is
"utf-8" ... but it is not). This results in the data not being
recognized and replaced with ef bf bd which is the unicode replacement
character; Google for "ef bf bd unicode" for a lot of links related to
this.

Solution would be to convert your data into utf-8 before posting.
--Suraj

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, ChongQing Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a strange problem with http REST post.
>
> I post a dat through the following URL
> "/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00d%00%06%1A%80/D:V"
>
> and it works correctly, but when I query the same address using get,
> I get the following xml result
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><CellSet><Row key="MTAwMF
> 8xXzEwMF8AAABkAAYa77+9"><Cell timestamp="1319664990595" column="RDpW">YWRi</Cell
>></Row></CellSet>
>
> The problem is if I decode the key, it is different from my post URL
> "/AAA/1000_1_100_%00%00%00%64%00%06%1A%EF%BF%BD/D:V
> The same key displays from the hbase shell.
>
> Somehow, the %80 is translated to %EF%BF%BD,
> The strange thing is I can still get the same data using both of the URLs.
>
> I am using the stable version 0.9.04.
>
> Does anyone know what is causing this?
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Chong
>
>
>
>
>
>