HDFS Thrift method 'write' does not transfer bytes

[Jürgen Kaatz]

Hi,

I try to copy a local 'gz' file via the HDFS Thrift method 'write' to HDFS. 
Unfortunately the method accepts only a 'String' as data and converts this to 
UTF8. I need t transfer bytes for the gz file.

Can anybody help me?

Juergen