Write php array in HBase using thrift

I have a Thrift php client and I want to write in a HBase table and I'm doing the following:

  $mutations = array(
    new Mutation( array(
      'column' => 'entry:num',
      'value' => array('a','b','c')
    ) ),
  );
  $client->mutateRow( $t, $row, $mutations );

The problem is that when inserting in HBase the value, which is an array, gets converted to 'Array' instead of storing the elements of the array. How can I store the list as an array (or byte array)

From stackoverflow

• I must admit that I do not have a clue what you're trying to do (perhaps due to a lack of knowledge regarding Thrift and HBase), but if I understood your question correctly, you're trying to write some PHP data structure (array in this case) to a storage media. To achieve this you have to serialize your data somehow. That could be using a custom XML serialization, a custom binary serialization or, perhaps the most simple solution, the PHP internal serialization mechanism provided by serialize() and the corresponding unserialize().

  If you strive for inter-language-interoperability you should use a custom serialization or you have to write a unserialization function that unserializes the PHP serialization format in your target language.

  Just a quick example - I don't know where you'd have to put this code, as I don't know exactly what you're doing:

  $mutations = array(
      new Mutation(array(
        'column' => 'entry:num',
        'value'  => array('a','b','c')
      )),
    );
  $data = serialize($mutations); // $data now is a string
  // write $data to storage
  // read $readData from storage
  $readMutations = unserialize($readData);
  // $readMutations == $mutations 
  // (but the Mutation instances are not the same instances any more)
  

  Please seee

  • serialize()
  • unserialize()
  • Serializing objects - objects in sessions