Re: command line interface to chunkd, tabled

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

On 11/08/2009 01:54 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:28:28 -0500, Jeff Garzik<jeff@garzik.org>  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