Table: Characters encoded by our layer should be automatically decoded

[christav]

If we put in illegal unicode chararacters, our table layer will encode those characters. But when retrieved, the user gets back not what they put in, but instead the encoding they didn't know about.

Things done by the layer should be automatically undone so the user neither knows nor cares.

For example:

        String partition = "001";
        String row = "insertEntityEscapeCharactersRoundTripsFromService";
        Entity insertedEntity = new Entity().setPartitionKey(partition).setRowKey(row)
                .setProperty("test", EdmType.STRING, "\u0005")
                ;

        service.insertEntity(TEST_TABLE_2, insertedEntity);

        GetEntityResult result = service.getEntity(TEST_TABLE_2, "001", "insertEntityEscapeCharactersRoundTripsFromService");
        assertNotNull(result);

        Entity entity = result.getEntity();

        assertNotNull(entity.getProperty("test"));
        String actualTest1 = (String) entity.getPropertyValue("test");
        assertEquals("", actualTest1);

Note that user stored the string "\u0005" (a single character, unicode code point 5), but what came back was the string ""

[jcookems]

Should investigate what .NET does, to do they same thing they are doing.

[guangyang]

Candidate

[gcheng]

no longer applicable.