[THRIFT-1726] Ruby-1.9: "binary" fields are represented by string whose encoding is "UTF-8"

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.2
• Component/s: Ruby - Library

Environment

JRuby 1.6.8 using "--1.9" command line parameter.

• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: XB
• Created: 11/Oct/12 17:31
• Updated: 10/Jul/14 13:42
• Resolved: 10/Jul/14 13:42

Description

When reading a thrift object using the Thrift::BinaryProtocol and this thrift object has a field of type "binary", then accessing this field yields a string whose encoding is "UTF-8".
The encoding should be "ASCII-8BIT" instead. It may be right to assume that "string" fields have a character encoding (such as "UTF-8"), but "binary" fields do not have a character encoding at all. For these cases, there is the pseudo-encoding "ASCII-8BIT" where we deal just with an opaque sequence of bytes.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: THRIFT-1766 [Ruby] Provide support for binary types