Have you tried to Astyanax example and use the Date override ? https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Writing-data http://netflix.github.io/astyanax/javadoc/com/netflix/astyanax/ColumnMutation.html#putValue(java.util.Date, java.lang.Integer)
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/04/2013, at 3:23 PM, Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> wrote: > I created my column family in Cassandra database like this from the CLI- > > create column family PROFILE > with key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type' > and comparator = 'UTF8Type' > and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type' > and column_metadata = [ > {column_name : lmd, validation_class : 'DateType'} > ]; > > > Now I was trying to insert into above lmd columns using few of the > clients like Netflix/Pelops/Datastax > > I am not sure how to insert into columns which is of DateType. I was using > the below code to insert > into lmd column. > > > final long LMD = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L; > > attrMap.put("lmd", String.valueOf(LMD)); > > And everytime, I get exception as - > > (Expected 8 or 0 byte long for date (30)) [my_keyspace][PROFILE][lmd] failed > validation > > Is there anything wrong I am doing? > > attrMap is String, String here. And then I am using this map later on to > retrieve the column and then populate it into cassandra database
