Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-16 Thread David Boxenhorn
Is there a way to view composite column names in the CLI? Is there a way to input them (i.e. in the set command)?

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-16 Thread Aaron Morton
What do you mean by composite column names? Do the data type functions supported by get and set help? Or the assume statement? Aaron On 17/05/2011, at 3:21 AM, David Boxenhorn wrote: > Is there a way to view composite column names in the CLI? > > Is there a way to input them (i.e. in the set

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-16 Thread Sameer Farooqui
Cassandra wouldn't know that the column name is composite of two different things. So you could just request the column names and values for a specific key like this and then just look at the column names that get returned: [default@MyKeyspace] get DemoCF[ascii('key_42')]; => (column=CA_SanJose, v

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-17 Thread David Boxenhorn
This is what I'm talking about https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231 The on-disk format is <(short)length><(short)length>... I would like to be able to input these kinds of keys into the CLI, something like set cf[key]['constituent1':'constituent2':'constituent3'] = val On Tue

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-17 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
Provided you're working on a branch that has CASSANDRA-2231 applied (that's either the cassandra-0.8.1 branch or trunk), this work 'out of the box': The setup will look like: [default@unknown] create keyspace test; [default@unknown] use test; [default@test] create column family testCF with compara

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-17 Thread David Boxenhorn
Excellent! (I presume there is some way of representing ":", like "\:"?) On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: > Provided you're working on a branch that has CASSANDRA-2231 applied (that's > either the cassandra-0.8.1 branch or trunk), this work 'out of the box': > > The set

Re: Using composite column names in the CLI

2011-05-17 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
> (I presume there is some way of representing ":", like "\:"?) Well no, not yet, but we'll try to figure something I guess (we'll have the problem with CASSANDRA-2474 I think so we'll probably use the same solution). But let's keep in mind this is unreleased code at this point. And let me also a