That looks right to me. btw, most people use CLI or CQL scripts to manage the schema
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 25/09/2012, at 7:59 PM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an example to update column family adding secondary indices with > thrift api? Here's how I do that now...but what if I have a hundred columns? > > // add secondary index on column "o_custkey" > CfDef cf_def = new CfDef("tpch", "orders"); > cf_def.setComparator_type("UTF8Type"); > cf_def.setKey_validation_class("UTF8Type"); > List<ColumnDef> column_metadata = new LinkedList<ColumnDef>(); > ColumnDef col_def = new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_CUSTKEY"), "UTF8Type"); > col_def.setIndex_type(IndexType.KEYS); > column_metadata.add(col_def); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_ORDERSTATUS"), "UTF8Type")); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_TOTALPRICE"), "UTF8Type")); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_ORDERPRIORITY"), "UTF8Type")); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_CLERK"), "UTF8Type")); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_SHIPPRIORITY"), "UTF8Type")); > column_metadata.add(new > ColumnDef(CassandraUtil.string2ByteBuffer("O_COMMENT"), "UTF8Type")); > > cf_def.setColumn_metadata(column_metadata); > client.system_update_column_family(cf_def);
