[storm] Compressed Pickle and RawStrings

[Barry Warsaw]

>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:
>>    accept_these_nonmembers = Pickle() # XXX

Just a quick follow up about that XXX.  In my own code, I consider Pickle()
types a useful transitional technique, but it's not something I want to carry
long term.  It's very convenient, and helps us get from the "old" persistence
mechanism to a Storm/SQL-based one, so I'm really glad it's there!

In the long term though, it's better to refactor the Pickle() types out, and
I've done that in most (but not all) cases.  The problem isn't Storm-related;
pickles are a Python-only representation so it means that other non-Python
processes would have difficulty extracting that data.

Cheers,
-Barry
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