[THRIFT-1766] [Ruby] Provide support for binary types

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.2
• Component/s: Ruby - Library
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Henrique Mendonca
• Reporter: Nathan Beyer
• Created: 28/Nov/12 22:43
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 04:49
• Resolved: 16/Jul/14 19:46

Description

The Ruby library didn't provide explicit support for 'binary' types, which sort of worked on Ruby 1.8.7 and with Thrift 0.8, but it doesn't work with Ruby 1.9.3 and the encoding changes that were included with Thrift 0.9.

This issue is intended to provide first class support for the 'binary' type.

Issue Links

• blocks: THRIFT-1803 Ruby Thrift 0.9.0 tries to encode UUID to UTF8 and crashes
• relates to: THRIFT-429 Make binary a full-fledged type of its own
• supercedes: THRIFT-1726 Ruby-1.9: "binary" fields are represented by string whose encoding is "UTF-8"
• supercedes: THRIFT-1727 Ruby-1.9: data loss: "binary" fields are re-encoded