I was originally using 0.5.0 but I've reproduced the behavior with
0.5.1 and 0.6.0-beta3.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using 0.5.0? Because this sounds like a bug that was fixed in 0.5.1.
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Bob Florian <bflor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm new to Cassandra and have run into a problem that I think is a
>> bug, but wanted to get some feedback in case I'm misunderstanding
>> something.
>>
>> I've found that when I delete an entire row in a column family with
>> super columns, and then re-insert values with the same row and super
>> column keys, the count parameter to the get_slice call no longer works
>> properly. Its like it is still counting the deleted columns, but only
>> returning the new columns.
>>
>> The following example uses the Ruby Cassandra client (see link below),
>> but I've seen the same behavior with the Java Thrift interface.
>>
>> 1) First I create a client and insert a super column with three columns:
>>
>>>> require 'cassandra'
>> => true
>>>> cc = Cassandra.new('Keyspace1')
>> => #<Cassandra:2159536540, @keyspace="Keyspace1", @schema={},
>> @servers=["127.0.0.1:9160"]>
>>>> cc.insert(:Super1,'test1',{'bucket1' => {'1' => 'Item 1', '2' => 'Item 2',
>>>> '5' => 'Item 5'}})
>> => nil
>>
>>
>> 2) Getting the slice of columns just inserted works with or without
>> the count parameter:
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1')
>> => #<OrderedHash {"1"=>"Item 1", "2"=>"Item 2", "5"=>"Item 5"}>
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1',:count => 3)
>> => #<OrderedHash {"1"=>"Item 1", "2"=>"Item 2", "5"=>"Item 5"}>
>>
>>
>> 3) Now I remove the row:
>>
>>>> cc.remove(:Super1,'test1')
>> => nil
>>
>>
>> 4) And confirm that nothing's left:
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1')
>> => #<OrderedHash {}>
>>
>>
>> 5) Next I insert 3 different columns using the same row and super column
>> keys:
>>
>>>> cc.insert(:Super1,'test1',{'bucket1' => {'3' => 'Item 3', '4' => 'Item 4',
>>>> '6' => 'Item 6'}})
>> => nil
>>
>>
>> 6) Getting the slice of columns works correctly with no count parameter:
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1')
>> => #<OrderedHash {"6"=>"Item 6", "3"=>"Item 3", "4"=>"Item 4"}>
>>
>>
>> 7) But setting the count parameter to 3 returns fewer than 3 columns:
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1',:count => 3)
>> => #<OrderedHash {"3"=>"Item 3"}>
>>
>>
>> 8) Incrementally increasing the count parameter confirms the apparent
>> behavior of counting the deleted columns:
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1',:count => 4)
>> => #<OrderedHash {"3"=>"Item 3", "4"=>"Item 4"}>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1',:count => 5)
>> => #<OrderedHash {"3"=>"Item 3", "4"=>"Item 4"}>
>>
>>
>> 9) I have to set the count to 6 to return all 3 columns:
>>
>>>> cc.get(:Super1,'test1','bucket1',:count => 6)
>> => #<OrderedHash {"6"=>"Item 6", "3"=>"Item 3", "4"=>"Item 4"}>
>>
>>
>> The same thing doesn't happen when I remove only the super column key
>> ('bucket1').
>>
>> Here's the reference to the Ruby client I used for the example, but
>> the problem is not client specific.
>> http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/cassandra/files/README_rdoc.html
>>
>
