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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:31:41 +0000
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Subject: Re: CQL decimal encoding
From: Ben Hood <0x6e6562@gmail.com>
To: Theo Hultberg <theo@iconara.net>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Theo Hultberg <theo@iconara.net> wrote:
> I don't know if it's by design or if it's by oversight that the data types
> aren't part of the binary protocol specification. I had to reverse engineer
> how to encode and decode all of them for the Ruby driver. There were
> definitely a few bugs in the first few versions that could have been avoided
> if there was a specification available.

Yes, it would be nice and would improve the overall quality of all of
the client drivers.