[jira] [Created] (PHOENIX-1223) arrays of byte[]s don't encode for null bytes

["Jesse Yates (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jesse Yates created PHOENIX-1223:
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             Summary: arrays of byte[]s don't encode for null bytes
                 Key: PHOENIX-1223
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1223
             Project: Phoenix
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 5.0.0, 4.1
            Reporter: Jesse Yates
             Fix For: 5.0.0, 4.2


When encoding arrays of byte[]s Phoenix doesn't correctly encode the null-byte (0x00). Phoenix sees that as the terminating character for the element, but when you do something like org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes.asBytes(int) it creates a byte[4] and sets bytes from the right to the left (so 1 would be converted to [0,0,0,1]), and then phoenix will see the leading 0-byte as the terminator the element and just return a null element

Instead, arrays of byte[]s need to include a length (probably prefix) so it knows how many bytes to read in. Its a bigger overhead than any other encoding type, but that may be the overhead if you want to do anything goes byte arrays. 



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