How to disable thriftpy's auto decoding?

[cherrot]

Recently I found that thriftpy would decode hbase keys and values automatically. For example:

conn = happybase.Connection('example.hbase.com')
table =  conn.table('some_table')
table.put('an_image', {'cf1:content': image_file.read()})
table.put('a_text', {'cf1:content': 'hello happybase!'})

print( type(table.row('an_image')[u'cf1:content']) ) # str
print( type(table.row('a_text')[u'cf1:content']) )  # unicode

Is there an elegant way to disable this feature? Currently I'm doing like this:

row = table.row('some_key')
content = row['cf1:content']
if isinstance(content, unicode):
    content = content.encode('utf-8')

[wbolster]

yep, known problem with current master. the latest released version does not use thriftpy so it does not have this problem.

my request to fix this Thriftpy/thriftpy#190 was addressed, but only partially, so i filed Thriftpy/thriftpy#193 and fixed it with Thriftpy/thriftpy#194.

however, since upstream has not rolled a new release with this fix yet (request for that is Thriftpy/thriftpy#197), this issue remains for now. i've filed #118 to track this.

:)

[wbolster]

closing this as a duplicate of #118