It looks like the comments for that function are not correct. If you look at the javadoc for the toBinaryString() method which gets called, you will get the complete story.
In short, it prints the bytes that are printable, and prints a hex representation for bytes that are not printable. This is modeled after the hbase utilities. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Barclay <[email protected]> wrote: > Is STRING_BINARY supposed to map all bytes or only certain bytes to > hexadecimal? > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > MapR Technologies >
