But I want values in my columns... Imagine a cf with authors as keys. Each author has written several books. So each row has columns with the title as column names and the text of the book as value (ie a lot of data). If a user wants to know the different books for an author, I'd like to be able to have the column names without the values, then a user can pick a book name. In this case I can retrieve the value from this column (and only for this one). Of course, I could have an additionnal column which will manage the column names (=titles), but it's not very efficient and could be source of errors... If you have a method to retrieve the number of columns of a row (without their values), I can't see why you couldn't retrieve the column names (without their values). It's perharps harder than I think... But it would be rather useful !
Thanks ! On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:08 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > You can create columns without values. > > Are you talking about reading them back through the API ? > > I would suggest looking at your data model to see if there is a better way > to support your read patterns. > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 6 Jun 2011, at 10:18, Patrick de Torcy wrote: > > It would be definetely useful to be able to have columns (or super columns) > names WITHOUT their values. If these ones are pretty big or if there are a > lot of columns, that would generate traffic not necessarily needed (if in > the end you are just interrested by some column). > Moreover it doesn't seem to be a feature too difficult to implement (well, > I think...) > > Patrick > > >
