I think you are seeing the behavior described at in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-455, where "In C++, optional fields require applications to manually set __isset fields, otherwise they are not serialized on writing." Apparently this is considered a "feature."
-Jonathan On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Padraig O'Sullivan <osullivan.padr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I was curious if anyone has had success using the C++ interface to > Cassandra? I've been having some difficulties and just wanted to check > if I was doing something wrong before debugging further or if there > was any known issues with C++ interface. > > I have a simple test program to demonstrate my issue (headers and > using namespace declarations omitted for clarity): > > int main() > { > shared_ptr<TTransport> socket(new TSocket(host, port)); > shared_ptr<TTransport> transport(new TBufferedTransport(socket)); > shared_ptr<TProtocol> protocol(new TBinaryProtocol(transport)); > CassandraClient client(protocol); > try > { > transport->open(); > ColumnPath old_col; > old_col.column_family.assign("Data"); > old_col.super_column.assign(""); > old_col.column.assign("first"); > ColumnOrSuperColumn ret_val; > client.get(ret_val, > "drizzle", > "padraig", > old_col, > ZERO); > transport->close(); > } > catch (InvalidRequestException &re) > { > printf("ERROR: %s\n", re.why.c_str()); > } > catch (TException &tx) > { > printf("ERROR: %s\n", tx.what()); > } > } > > Now, when I run this, I get the following (from the InvalidRequestException): > > $ ./simple_get > ERROR: column parameter is not optional for standard CF Data > $ > > When I look at the relevant piece of code in the method > validateColumnPath() in ThriftValidation.java, I see the following: > > if (column_path.column == null) > { > throw new InvalidRequestException("column parameter is not optional > for standard CF " + column_path.column_family); > } > > and I can confirm that the super_column and column members of the > ColumnPath object are appearing as null strings in this method but the > column parameter is not being passed as a null parameter from my C++ > program. > > So basically, I'm just wondering if anyone has successfully used the > C++ interface generated by thrift to Cassandra? Are there any issues > with it that I am not aware of? Has anyone else encountered this > problem? > > I should mention that I checked out the latest version of thrift from > SVN and used that to generate the C++ files for interfacing with > cassandra and I used git to clone the latest version of Cassandra (the > output of show version from the CLI shows the Cassandra version as > 0.5-beta1). > > Thanks, > Padraig >