Blob / binary columns about maxwell

[osheroff]

ok, I'll look into the crash. would you want the blob output as base64? That's sort of the best thing I can think of to do with it....

[Komnomnomnom]

base64 makes the most sense to me

[osheroff]

#97 that was easier than I thought it would be

[Komnomnomnom]

Great #97 fixes the crash and I can see the base64'd data coming through maxwell.

However, I notice the base64 encoded string is not padded and is a 'URL safe' version. Was this intentional? I think a padded base64 with standard encoding would be best for interoperability, unless there is a reason for choosing a URL safe version?

[osheroff]

I wanted to avoid the line chunking that happens in apache commons 1.4. I'll use a different method, one sec.

[osheroff]

updated apache commons to 1.5 for non-chunked base64, now it's padded.

[Komnomnomnom]

Awesome 👍, decoding's a lot more straightforward now (Python)

[osheroff]

cool, I will release this and others once I can get sign-off from a Zendesk folk (dumb coding standards) :)

[osheroff]

fixed in https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/tag/v0.10.1