If you understand how cql collections are written you can decode them and work with them from thrift. It's quite a chore and i would not suggest trying yo do it however.
(I suspect tyler tried it and jonathan broke his hand jk) There is a perl cassandra driver that did something like this. On Wednesday, July 17, 2013, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: >> I'll leave it to somebody else to comment on adding collections, etc to >> Thrift. > > Doesn't make sense, since Thrift is all about the raw data cells, and > collections are an abstraction layer on top of that. > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > @spyced >
