Assuming you encode your data properly and choose buckets/keys that are 
URL-safe, there's no reason you can't access it from both interfaces.

Sean Cribbs <[email protected]>
Developer Advocate
Basho Technologies, Inc.
http://basho.com/

On Apr 9, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 4/9/11 10:47 AM, Sean Cribbs wrote:
>> 
>> Because it's being confused in this conversation, I think it merits
>> clarification -- the "protocol" that is used to talk to Riak and Google's
>> Protocol Buffers are NOT the same thing. Riak uses a simple length- and
>> message-code-prefixed binary protocol, in which the complex messages (ones 
>> that
>> have bodies and not just the message code) are serialized via Google's 
>> Protocol
>> Buffers. So, while we don't use the RPC facilities in Google's library, the
>> *serialization format* DOES use Protocol Buffers.
>> 
>> Sorry for the confusion, we'll work to make that clearer in the wiki.
> 
> Can you mix/match access to the same buckets/data with the PB and rest 
> protocols if the values are json objects?   For example if you have some 
> high-volume data feeds, could you write with the more efficient PB but read 
> with more generic rest clients?  Or does all access to a bucket have to use 
> the same protocol?
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
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