Excellent! (I presume there is some way of representing ":", like "\:"?)
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > Provided you're working on a branch that has CASSANDRA-2231 applied (that's > either the cassandra-0.8.1 branch or trunk), this work 'out of the box': > > The setup will look like: > [default@unknown] create keyspace test; > [default@unknown] use test; > [default@test] create column family testCF with > comparator='CompositeType(AsciiType, IntegerType(reversed=true), > IntegerType)' and default_validation_class=AsciiType; > > Then: > [default@test] set testCF[a]['foo:24:24'] = 'v1'; > Value inserted. > [default@test] set testCF[a]['foo:42:24'] = 'v2'; > Value inserted. > [default@test] set testCF[a]['foobar:42:24'] = 'v3'; > Value inserted. > [default@test] set testCF[a]['boobar:42:24'] = 'v4'; > Value inserted. > [default@test] set testCF[a]['boobar:42:42'] = 'v5'; > Value inserted. > [default@test] get testCF[a]; > => (column=boobar:42:24, value=v4, timestamp=1305621115813000) > => (column=boobar:42:42, value=v5, timestamp=1305621125563000) > => (column=foo:42:24, value=v2, timestamp=1305621096473000) > => (column=foo:24:24, value=v1, timestamp=1305621085548000) > => (column=foobar:42:24, value=v3, timestamp=1305621110813000) > Returned 5 results. > > -- > Sylvain > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:20 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@taotown.com> > wrote: > > This is what I'm talking about > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231 > > > > The on-disk format is > > > > <(short)length><constituent><end byte = > 0><(short)length><constituent><end > > byte = 0>... > > > > I would like to be able to input these kinds of keys into the CLI, > something > > like > > > > set cf[key]['constituent1':'constituent2':'constituent3'] = val > > > > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Sameer Farooqui < > cassandral...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Cassandra wouldn't know that the column name is composite of two > different > >> things. So you could just request the column names and values for a > specific > >> key like this and then just look at the column names that get returned: > >> [default@MyKeyspace] get DemoCF[ascii('key_42')]; > >> => (column=CA_SanJose, value=50, timestamp=1305236885112000) > >> => (column=CA_PaloAlto, value=49, timestamp=1305236885192000) > >> => (column=FL_Orlando, value=45, timestamp=1305236885280000) > >> => (column=NY_NYC, value=40, timestamp=1305236885361000) > >> > >> And I'm not sure what you mean by inputting composite column names. You > >> just input them like any other column name: > >> [default@MyKeyspace] set DemoCF['key_42']['CA_SanJose']='51'; > >> Value inserted. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> What do you mean by composite column names? > >>> > >>> Do the data type functions supported by get and set help? Or the assume > >>> statement? > >>> > >>> Aaron > >>> On 17/05/2011, at 3:21 AM, David Boxenhorn <da...@taotown.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Is there a way to view composite column names in the CLI? > >>> > > >>> > Is there a way to input them (i.e. in the set command)? > >>> > > >> > > > > >
