Persistence not stored as json in DB

[babula38]

Hi, I am learning Orleans I have just created the sample provided in the docs. I found in the docs that UseJson is the default now. But still, the grains are stored as binary in the database.

I am attaching the code zip file below for you to look over.

OrleansURLShortener.zip

NOTE:- Tried a lot to get any information from the document, but I guess the document is not complete or missing the updates.

[ReubenBond]

cc @benjaminpetit I think we should address this.

It's encoded as JSON but stored as binary, confusingly. In other words, you could decode that blob as UTF-8

[babula38]

@ReubenBond is there any config change I can do to store it as JSON not binary?

I tried to decode the value in UTF-8 via the code below but am not getting the JSON back am I doing something wrong?

using System;
using System.Text;

string x="0x7B22246964223A2231222C222474797065223A2255726C44657461696C732C204F726C65616E7355524C53686F7274656E6572222C2246756C6C55726C223A2268747470733A2F2F6D6963726F736F66746767672E636F6D222C2253686F7274656E6564526F7574655365676D656E74223A223944304234393545222C224D79";
var y = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(x);

var z= System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(y);

Console.WriteLine("🌄"+z);

[eltjo-k]

Meanwhile this is getting fixed you should be able to get the data using

select cast(PayloadBinary as varchar(MAX)), * from OrleansStorage

[babula38]

Meanwhile this is getting fixed you should be able to get the data using

select cast(PayloadBinary as varchar(MAX)), * from OrleansStorage

Let me try this.

[amccool]

the cast to varchar(MAX) is working for me. does seem strange to have the double serialization. Is the intent to use the transport serializer? e.g. [generateserializer]