You can use any AbstractType, including custom ones. The format depends on AT.fromString; in the case of bytestype (CQL "bytea") this is hex:
SELECT 'd54' FROM MyColumnFamily On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Michal Augustýn <augustyn.mic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have read a lot about CQL and I looked into source and it seems that > just string, long and uuid can be used as column name/value in CQL > commands. Is there any way how to works with "pure" bytes? I.e. > "SELECT BYTES(3412) FROM MyColumnFamily". > Actually, I wouldn't use CQL without this feature because I have some > data "compressed" - i.e. if I want to store some hash (MD5, SHA256) > then I store raw bytes. > > Thanks! > > Augi > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
