Re: REST API?

2011-10-10 Thread Ed Anuff
For Usergrid, we use Jersey (http://jersey.java.net/), the Sun implementation of JAX-RS, which makes use of Jackson (http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome) for the JSON marshalling. I'd heartily recommend using those if you're going to roll your own REST implementation in Java. If you're looking

Re: Announcements List

2011-07-20 Thread Ed Anuff
+1 that's a great idea On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I'd love to put a "Planet Cassandra" aggregator together. > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ed Anuff wrote: >> I think that what's being asked for isn't so

Re: Announcements List

2011-07-20 Thread Ed Anuff
I think that what's being asked for isn't so much announcements as some sort of way of communicating or summarizing roadmap. However, in practical matters, I'm not sure how this can be done in a mailing list form. Anything that gets "announced" as roadmap is either so far along that it's not road

Cassandra last stable snapshot build as a maven artifact?

2011-06-05 Thread Ed Anuff
Is there a way to specify this? I only see the gzip'd files at https://builds.apache.org/job/Cassandra/lastStableBuild/, but was looking for something I could specify as a repository in my pom.xml. Ed

Question about ByteBuffer positions

2010-11-23 Thread Ed Anuff
Is it safe to assume that anywhere that you're provided with a ByteBuffer that it's ok to leave it's position wherever you want or should you be calling buffer.duplicate() and working with your copy of the buffer? I've tried to trace anything that calls the new method signatures in AbstractType an

Re: Secondary Index Operators

2010-07-12 Thread Ed Anuff
Interesting, I can't comment on the applicability of msgpack within Cassandra, but I posted something a while back about a serialization technique I was using for implementing inverted indexes at the application level on top of Cassandra (http://github.com/edanuff/CassandraCompositeType). I used a

column family naming restrictions?

2010-06-08 Thread Ed Anuff
Are the restrictions on column family names specified anywhere? I see that hyphens aren't allowed, and I assume anything else that wouldn't work in a filename? I assume that underscores, commas, and periods are allowed? Thanks Ed

Re: Is SuperColumn necessary?

2010-05-07 Thread Ed Anuff
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Mike Malone wrote: > > The upshot is, the Cassandra data model would go from being "it's a nested > dictionary, just kidding no it's not!" to being "it's a nested dictionary, > for serious." Again, these are all just ideas... but I think this > simplified > data m