Thanks Ryan. That makes more sense now. So I should instead find a way to (de)serialize Ruby objects to string vice versa when inserting to Column.
Kind regards, Joshua On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Ryan King <r...@twitter.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Joshua Partogi <joshua.j...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know whether my assumption is right or not. When I tried to > insert a > > Time value into a column I am getting this exception: > > > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/protocol/binary_protocol.rb:106:in > > `write_string' > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/client.rb:35:in `write' > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift-0.5.0/lib/thrift/client.rb:35:in > `send_message' > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/./vendor/0.7/gen-rb/cassandra.rb:213:in > > `send_batch_mutate' > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/./vendor/0.7/gen-rb/cassandra.rb:208:in > > `batch_mutate' > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:115:in > > `send' > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:115:in > > `handled_proxy' > > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.0/lib/thrift_client/abstract_thrift_client.rb:57:in > > `batch_mutate' > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/cassandra/0.7/protocol.rb:8:in > > `_mutate' > > vendor/ruby/1.8/gems/cassandra-0.9.0/lib/cassandra/cassandra.rb:130:in > > `insert' > > > > But I am not getting any error if I insert a Time value into a > sub-column. > > > > Is this an error or does it suppose to work that way? > > > > Thanks heaps for the insight. > > IIRC when we wrote that code the idea was to require strings for > everything and have users do their own serialization. In that context, > the supercolmn behavior is the wrong one here. > > -ryan > > -- > @rk > -- http://twitter.com/jpartogi
