Cannot read value when incorrect flags are set

We have a third party application writing data to couchbase using Python. When the Ruby application tries to read the data, the following error is returned:

Couchbase::Error::ValueFormat: unable to convert value

The Ruby gem is using the flags to determine the serialization method and there is no way to override. This could be resolved by allowing the get to take a format parameter such as:

connection.get 'some_key', :format => :plain