Hello,
I’m learning about EventStore and have written some simple clients using the ES JVM client. I am able to append events to streams fairly successfully, but I’ve run into something I can’t quite figure out on reading data from streams.
Using the example Subscribe to All code, I’m reading events from my stream, but I don’t have a clear picture on how to functionally unpack the data coming out of it. In my onEvent method, I have an IndexedEvent. I am trying to simply print the data from the event to the console, in the same format as I inserted it into the stream.
My inserts are simple 4-byte strings (“test”) and I am trying to print using the following statement:
public void onEvent(IndexedEvent event, Closeable subscription) {
System.out.println(event.event().data().data().toString());
}
However, instead of seeing my string (“test”), I instead see this:
Content(ByteString(116, 101, 115, 116),ContentType.Binary})
Combing through the library’s source code and tests and examples, I cannot see a method by which I can convert that back into a printable, readable string.
Does anyone have any experience with this to point me in the right direction? Thanks much in advance.