Github user nickwallen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/236#discussion_r78373523
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metron-analytics/metron-profiler/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/profiler/hbase/Serializer.java
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+package org.apache.metron.profiler.hbase;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
+
+/**
+ * Provides basic functionality to serialize and deserialize the allowed
+ * value types for a ProfileMeasurement.
+ */
+public class Serializer {
+
+ private Serializer() {
+ // do not instantiate
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Serialize a profile measurement's value.
+ *
+ * The value produced by a Profile definition can be any numeric data
type. The data
+ * type depends on how the profile is defined by the user. The user
should be able to
+ * choose the data type that is most suitable for their use case.
+ *
+ * @param value The value to serialize.
+ */
+ public static byte[] toBytes(Object value) {
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Yes, I like that. I went down this path before, but ran into some
unrelated issues and ended up unwinding the change. There are at least 4 touch
points that would change based on this; all good changes.
Wondering if I should just submit this change as a separate PR to make my
life easier with the other dependent changes I have in the pipeline. Looking
at the code now to see how painful that might be.
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