Hi, I'm trying to determine the best way to serialize a sequence of integers/strings that represent a hierarchy for a column qualifier, which would be compatible with the ColumnPrefixFilters, and BinaryComparators.
However, due to the lexicographical sorting, it's awkward to serialize the sequence of values needed to get it to work. What are the typical solutions to this? Do people just zero pad integers to make sure they sort correctly? Or do I have to implement my own QualifierFilter - which seems expensive since I'd be deserializing every byte array just to compare. Thanks - Nasron
