You should probably be using system.nanoTime() not
system.currentTimeInMillis(). The user is free to set the timestamp to
whatever they like but nano-time is the standard (it is what the cli uses,
and what cql will use)
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com> wrote:
> Sorry, typo in code sample, should be:
>
> ssTableWriter.newRow(StringSerializer.get().toByteBuffer("20101201"));
> Composite columnComposite = new Composite();
> columnComposite.setComponent(0,5,IntegerSerializer.get());
> columnComposite.setComponent(1,10,IntegerSerializer.get());
>
> ssTableWriter.addColumn(
> CompositeSerializer.get().toByteBuffer(columnComposite), null,
> System.currentTimeMillis() );
>
> From: Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:32 PM
> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Bulk loading into CQL3 Composite Columns
>
> You do not want to repeat the first item of your primary key again. If
> you recall, in CQL3 a primary key as defined below indicates that the row
> key is the first item (key) and then the column names are composites of
> val1,val2. Although I don't see why you need val2 as part of the primary
> key in this case. In any event, you would do something like this (although
> I've never tested passing a null value):
>
> ssTableWriter.newRow(StringSerializer.get().toByteBuffer("20101201"));
> Composite columnComposite = new Composite();
> columnComposite(0,5,IntegerSerializer.get());
> columnComposite(0,10,IntegerSerializer.get());
> ssTableWriter.addColumn(
> CompositeSerializer.get().toByteBuffer(columnComposite),
> null,
> System.currentTimeMillis()
> );
>
> From: Daniel Morton <dan...@djmorton.com>
> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:06 PM
> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
> Subject: Bulk loading into CQL3 Composite Columns
>
> Hi All. I am trying to bulk load some data into a CQL3 table using the
> sstableloader utility and I am having some difficulty figuring out how to
> use the SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter with composite columns.
>
> I have created this simple contrived table for testing:
>
> create table test (key varchar, val1 int, val2 int, primary key (key,
> val1, val2));
>
> Loosely following the bulk loading example in the docs, I have constructed
> the following method to create my temporary SSTables.
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> final List<AbstractType<?>> compositeTypes = new ArrayList<>();
> compositeTypes.add(UTF8Type.instance);
> compositeTypes.add(IntegerType.instance);
> compositeTypes.add(IntegerType.instance);
> final CompositeType compType =
> CompositeType.getInstance(compositeTypes);
> SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter ssTableWriter =
> new SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter(
> new File("/tmp/cassandra_bulk/bigdata/test"),
> new Murmur3Partitioner() ,
> "bigdata",
> "test",
> compType,
> null,
> 128);
>
> final Builder builder =
> new CompositeType.Builder(compType);
>
> builder.add(bytes("20101201"));
> builder.add(bytes(5));
> builder.add(bytes(10));
>
> ssTableWriter.newRow(bytes("20101201"));
> ssTableWriter.addColumn(
> builder.build(),
> ByteBuffer.allocate(0),
> System.currentTimeMillis()
> );
>
> ssTableWriter.close();
> }
>
> When I execute this method and load the data using sstableloader, if I do
> a 'SELECT * FROM test' in cqlsh, I get the results:
>
> key | val1 | val2
> ----------------------------
> 20101201 | '20101201' | 5
>
> And the error: Failed to decode value '20101201' (for column 'val1') as
> int.
>
> The error I get makes sense, as apparently it tried to place the key value
> into the val1 column. From this error, I then assumed that the key value
> should not be part of the composite type when the row is added, so I
> removed the UTF8Type from the composite type, and only added the two
> integer values through the builder, but when I repeat the select with that
> data loaded, Cassandra throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the
> ColumnGroupMap class.
>
> Can anyone offer any advice on the correct way to insert data via the bulk
> loading process into CQL3 tables with composite columns? Does the fact
> that I am not inserting a value for the columns make a difference? For my
> particular use case, all I care about is the values in the column names
> themselves (and the associated sorting that goes with them).
>
> Any info or help anyone could provide would be very much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Morton
>
