cassandra-cli should handle binary column names/values, (and ultimately keys) 
or die
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                 Key: CASSANDRA-912
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-912
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Tools
    Affects Versions: 0.6
            Reporter: Eric Evans


While a useful tool for education and simple tests, cassandra-cli is ultimately 
limted by the fact that column names and values are binary, (and eventually 
keys will be as well, see CASSANDRA-767). 

The current approach when writing consists of encoding column names as UTF8, 
and passing the value as a byte[] of the String parsed from the command. When 
performing a read, the column names outputted are the result of the toString() 
method of the comparator (the result of which is not always meaningful), and 
values are again treated as raw strings. This is almost certainly broken 
anywhere that the CF comparator is not UTF8Type and values are anything but 
strings.

One possible approach would be to follow HBase's lead and simply allow binary 
values to be encoded as strings (see: 
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/Shell).


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