Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-28 Thread David Boxenhorn
How about BigDoubles and BigIntegers? On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I don't think you can avoid that. > > I'd suggest making it CQL-only if we do doubles -- no backwards > incompatibility required there. > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Jason wrote: >> Sorry, I sho

Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-27 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I don't think you can avoid that. I'd suggest making it CQL-only if we do doubles -- no backwards incompatibility required there. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Jason wrote: > Sorry, I should have been more clear; I was speaking to the question of how > to avoid modifying the thrift interface

Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-27 Thread Jason
Sorry, I should have been more clear; I was speaking to the question of how to avoid modifying the thrift interface. - Jason On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Joseph Stein wrote: > hmmm, well Jason it is not as accurate as I would have thought at first and > the increments on the long are whacked

Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-27 Thread Joseph Stein
hmmm, well Jason it is not as accurate as I would have thought at first and the increments on the long are whacked (which now that I think about it more makes sense since a +1 of the bits as long for the double would not necessarly represent the +1 on the double). So I am setting the increment to

Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-27 Thread Joseph Stein
I will give that a shot, seems that it will work fantastically, thanks! I will keep trolling JIRA then for something I feel I can get my feet wet with and contribute then. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Jason Fager wrote: > Longs and Doubles are both 64-bit values and are pretty easily > conv

Re: CounterColumn as a double

2011-06-27 Thread Jason Fager
Longs and Doubles are both 64-bit values and are pretty easily convertible. Check out Double.doubleToLongBits and Double.longBitsToDouble in the JDK; you can also read more about the details of the conversion and get some pointers to some code in a post I wrote last year: http://jasonfager.com/770