On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Joost Ouwerkerk <jo...@openplaces.org>wrote:
> +1. There is some disagreement on whether or not the API should
> return empty columns or skip rows when no data is found. In all of
> our use cases, we would prefer skipped rows. And based on how
> frequently new cassandra users appear to be confused about the current
> behaviour, this might be a more common use case than the need for
> empty cols. Perhaps this could be added as an option on
> SlicePredicate ? (e.g. skipEmpty=true).
>
That's exactly how we implemented it:
struct SlicePredicate {
1: optional list<binary> column_names,
2: optional SliceRange slice_range,
3: optional bool ignore_empty_rows=0,
}
Mike
