If you don't get frustrated writing Thrift by hand you are a far, far
more patient man than I am.
It's tedious and error-prone to boot.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Markus Wiesenbacher | Codefreun.de
<m...@codefreun.de> wrote:
> One question regarding point 2: Why should we always use Hector, Thrift is
> not that bad?
>
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>
> Am 17.06.2011 um 17:12 schrieb Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>:
>
>> 1. the right way to right that is to just say struct.name, struct.value, etc
>> 2. why are you writing raw thrift instead of using Hector?
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Vivek Mishra
>> <vivek.mis...@impetus.co.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Vivek Mishra
>>> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 3:25 PM
>>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>>> Subject: getFieldValue()
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was looking into getFieldValue method for SuperColumn and SlicePredicate
>>> apis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks to me slight confusing as underlying APIs are returning Object and
>>> developer can only be aware of type of object either by looking into
>>> Cassandra code base or by ClassCastException.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For example,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to retrieve column name and it’s value for a SuperColumnFamily
>>> “SuperCli” is:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> List<KeySlice> keySlices = cassndraClient.get_range_slices(new ColumnParent(
>>>
>>> "SuperCli"), slicePredicate, keyRange,
>>> ConsistencyLevel.ONE);
>>>
>>> System.out.println(keySlices.size()
>>>
>>> + " No. of rows exist for the column family:" +
>>> "SuperCli");
>>>
>>> for( KeySlice slice :keySlices)
>>>
>>> {
>>>
>>> city = "noida";
>>>
>>> System.out.println(new String((byte[])
>>> (slice.getColumns().get(0).getSuper_column().getFieldValue(org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SuperColumn._Fields.NAME))).toString());
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong or such typecasting is must? Shouldn’t we hide
>>> this complexity and handle it implicitly in CASSANDRA? Or may be introducing
>>> a Helper Class can reduce such amount of code ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to retrieve a specific SuperColumn by specifying it’s value
>>> in SliceRange query?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I can’t see any method with such search API and I believe it is a real time
>>> scenario.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SuperCli is a super column family holding number of dynamic super columns.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
>> http://www.datastax.com
>
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Jonathan Ellis
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co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://www.datastax.com
