It's okay, it seems that you need to enclose the comparator with single quotes.....<sigh>
On another note, can ranges be set without based on just one components of a composite column name? I have a the Composite below in the previous email and want to return all my transaction columns for a particular date range: public Set<TransactionType> findTransactions(String listId, long startTime, long endTime) { DynamicCompositeSerializer ds = new DynamicCompositeSerializer(); SliceQuery<String, DynamicComposite, String> transQuery = HFactory.createSliceQuery(getKeyspace(), mStringSerializer, ds, mStringSerializer); transQuery.setKey(listId); transQuery.setColumnFamily(CF_TRANSACTIONS); DynamicComposite startRange = null; DynamicComposite endRange = null; if (startTime > 0) { mLog.debug("Setting startRange with startTime[" + startTime + "]"); startRange = new DynamicComposite("", newTimeUUID(startTime)); } else { mLog.debug("Setting startRange to beginning of time!"); startRange = new DynamicComposite("", new UUID(0, 0)); } if (startTime > 0 && endTime > 0) { mLog.debug("Setting startRange with endTime[" + endTime + "]"); endRange = new DynamicComposite("", newTimeUUID(endTime)); } else { mLog.debug("Setting endRange to end of time!"); endRange = new DynamicComposite("", new UUID(Long.MAX_VALUE | Long.MIN_VALUE, Long.MAX_VALUE | Long.MIN_VALUE)); } mLog.debug("Setting range..."); transQuery.setRange(startRange, endRange, false, 100000); mLog.debug("Executing query..."); QueryResult<ColumnSlice<DynamicComposite, String>> queryResults = transQuery.execute(); } But I'm finding I'm just getting 0 results even if I use the values of beginning of time ("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000") and end of time ("ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff") I want to slice only across the Time component of the Composite. Is this possible? Anthony On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Anthony Ikeda <anthony.ikeda....@gmail.com > wrote: > Is this possible? I'm trying to create a Column Family with a CompositeType > comparator, but I keep getting an error: > > create column family Transactions with comparator = CompositeType(UTF8Type, > UUIDType) and keys_cached=10000 and rows_cached=1000; > Syntax error at position 84: missing EOF at '(' > > Same issue if I try with DynamicCompositeType: > > create column family Transactions with comparator = > DynamicCompositeType(s=>UTF8Type, u=>UUIDType) and keys_cached=10000 and > rows_cached=1000; > Syntax error at position 84: missing EOF at '(' > > I'm using Cassandra 0.8.1 > > Anthony > >