Hello, I'm using Phoenix 4.3.0 in CDH5.4 cluster. I'm trying to parse a TIMESTAMP column from a table using HBase native API. (Because I want to get all versions of that column, which I couldn't do using Phoenix JDBC)
>From the documentation, the TIMESTAMP type is a 12-byte value, 8-byte for the milliseconds since the epoch, and 4 bytes for the nanoseconds. My HBase query resulted in a Java byte[] array (which has 12 bytes indeed) from there, I tried parsing the first 8 bytes into a long variable, and then parsing that long value to a java.sql.Timestamp object. (let's ignore the 4-bytes for now) the problem is that the resulting long value is a large Negative number, which make no sense for a timestamp value. Is there a correct method for extracting this long value? Thanks, David
