You may also want to look at the triggers interface.
> On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Chris Lohfink <chris.lohf...@datastax.com> wrote: > > There are different kinds of tombstones, a partition tombstone is held in > the MutableDeletionInfo of the PartitionUpdate that you can get from > deletionInfo() method which returns the private deletionInfo field from the > holder. There are also row and cell deletions so you have to handle each of > those. It can be a little non-trivial to work backwards but all the > information is there in the Mutation (if you have full access to cfmetadata > etc), may be easier to go directly to whatever output your looking for. > > A lot of the metadata is driven from system though, you need to be either > be on a Cassandra node or rebuild them with the same cfids. In sstable-tools > <https://github.com/tolbertam/sstable-tools> we rebuild the tables from the > source cluster to parse the Mutations for replaying/viewing hints and > commitlogs. But that had to be a bit (massively) hackier since its for 3.7 > before CASSANDRA-8844 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8844>. > Its definitely possible but not easy (which is probably why it hasn't been > added in yet). > > Chris > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Sanal Vasudevan <get2sa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Bejamin, >> >> Nice to hear from you. >> >> My goal is to reconstruct the CQL operation from the Mutation object. >> So that I can trigger the same action on another NoSQL target like MongoDB. >> >> Please let me know know if you have ideas? >> >> Many thanks. >> Sanal >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Benjamin Lerer < >> benjamin.le...@datastax.com >>> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sanal, >>> >>> What you want to do is not an easy stuff and it might break with new >> major >>> releases. >>> >>> My question would be: why do you want to do that? There might be another >>> way to reach the same goal. >>> >>> Benjamin >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Sanal Vasudevan <get2sa...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you Vladimir. >>>> Anyone else has any other ideas as to how this can be done? >>>> >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> Sanal >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Vladimir Yudovin < >> vla...@winguzone.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Sanal, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >do we have metadata inside Mutation object to decode whether the >>> CQL >>>>> was an INSERT or UPDATE operation? >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure it's possible to distinguish them - both of them just >> add >>>>> data to SSTable. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, Vladimir Yudovin, >>>>> >>>>> Winguzone - Hosted Cloud Cassandra >>>>> Launch your cluster in minutes. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ---- On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:55:00 -0500Sanal Vasudevan & >>>>> lt;get2sa...@gmail.com> wrote ---- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to read the Commit logs to decode the original CQL which >>>> used. >>>>> >>>>> I get to the point an implemention of CommitLogReadHandler is able to >>>> push >>>>> >>>>> back Mutation objects from the Commit logs. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Questions: >>>>> >>>>> 1) CQL: delete from myks.mytable where key1 = 1; >>>>> >>>>> For the above CQL, the Mutation object has zero objects of >>>>> >>>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.rows.Row inside ParitionUpdate object. >>>>> >>>>> Is this the only way to detect a DELETE operation? or we have any >> other >>>>> >>>>> metadata to indicate a DELETE operation? >>>>> >>>>> mutation.getPartitionUpdates().forEach(rows -> { >>> if(rows.isEmpty()) >>>>> >>>>> System.out.println("May be a DELETE operation") }); >>>>> >>>>> 2) Likewise do we have metadata inside Mutation object to decode >>> whether >>>>> >>>>> the CQL was an INSERT or UPDATE operation? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Josh Mckenzie indicated that PartitionUpdate.deletionInfo >>>>> >>>>> (MutableDeletionInfo) may have some information but deletionInfo is >>>>> private. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Basically, I am looking for help to find a way to classify Mutation >>>> object >>>>> >>>>> to INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE with related column and key information. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Sanal >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sanal Vasudevan Nair >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sanal Vasudevan Nair >>