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Alex Liu updated CASSANDRA-5867:
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Attachment: 5867-3-1.2-branch.txt
5867-3-1.2-branch.txt is attached to support storing collections to Cassandra
> The Pig CqlStorage/AbstractCassandraStorage classes don't handle collection
> types
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> Key: CASSANDRA-5867
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5867
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Hadoop
> Reporter: Jeremy Hanna
> Assignee: Alex Liu
> Labels: pig
> Attachments: 5867-1.2-branch.txt, 5867-2-1.2-branch.txt,
> 5867-3-1.2-branch.txt
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> The CqlStorage class gets the Pig data type for values from the
> AbstractCassandraStorage class, in the getPigType method. If it isn't a
> known data type, it makes the value into a ByteArray. Currently there aren't
> any cases there for lists, maps, and sets.
> https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-1.2.8/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/AbstractCassandraStorage.java#L336
> See this describe output from the grunt shell:
> {code}
> grunt> describe listdata ;
> listdata: {id: (name: chararray,value: int),alist: (name: chararray,value:
> bytearray),amap: (name: chararray,value: bytearray),aset: (name:
> chararray,value: bytearray)}
> {code}
> where the cql data structures had this schema:
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE alltypes (
> id int PRIMARY KEY,
> alist list<text>,
> amap map<text, text>,
> aset set<text>
> {code}
> It turns out that if you cast the map in grunt to a pig map, then it sort of
> works, but I don't think we should probably use a pig map. Lists don't
> appear to work at all, as there is no Pig analogue. I *think* you could
> probably just do a UDF to cast these things, but we already have all of the
> type information, so we just need to change them to tuples or bags or
> whatever.
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