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Nate McCall edited comment on CASSANDRA-3657 at 1/24/12 12:34 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Patch needs rebase - looks like AbstractType member "type" on DynamicCompositeType.DynamicParsedComparator got generified in a recent commit. Two other changes appear to have been applied already. was (Author: zznate): Patch needs rebase - looks like AbstractType member "type" on DynamicCompositeType.DynamicParsedComparator got generified in a recent commit. > Allow extending CompositeType comparator > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-3657 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3657 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: API, Core > Affects Versions: 0.8.1 > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 1.1 > > Attachments: 0001-Allow-compatible-comparator-changes.patch > > > Quoting Sylvain from CASSANDRA-2474, > bq. if you declare a comparator like CompositeType(IntType, UUIDType, > UTF8Type), you can have columns that have only some prefix of the component > (typically '42:92d21d0a-d6cb-437c-9d3f-b67aa733a19f' is a valid column name > for that comparator), and as a consequence it would be possible to allow > 'extend' the preceding comparator to say CompositeType(IntType, UUIDType, > UTF8Type, IntType) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira