Re: Create CF in Mapper's setup

2010-12-22 Thread altanis
Thank you, I hadn't realized I should use thrift. Alexander Altanis > Download the source version of the latest 0.7 from > http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ and take a look at the > contrib/word_count example. Specifically, in the > contrib/word_count/src/WordCountSetup.java file, there are

Re: Create CF in Mapper's setup

2010-12-21 Thread Jeremy Hanna
Download the source version of the latest 0.7 from http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ and take a look at the contrib/word_count example. Specifically, in the contrib/word_count/src/WordCountSetup.java file, there are examples of how to create a column family using thrift. On Dec 21, 2010, a

Create CF in Mapper's setup

2010-12-21 Thread altanis
I'd like to have a Hadoop MapReduce job create a column family in the setup() method of the Mapper, if it doesn't already exist. How would I do that correctly? I thought of using CassandraServer's methods (which is a bit of a hack, I know), but they are private, so I suppose there is a better way.