org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.DoubleType should work, then. the cast shouldn't be necessary if the doubletype is actually in the schema either.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Sameer Farooqui <cassandral...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yup, Jonathan, I was just temporarily returning the value as LongType b/c I > couldn't find a DoubleType. Since LongType returned something, I know that > the data is there. > > Thanks for that link, Jeremy. I'm guessing DoubleType hasn't found its way > into the CLI yet, b/c I tried this and got an error: > > [default@DemoKS] get DemoCF[ascii('ABC_100000000020')][long(20090101000000)] > as DoubleType; > Unknown comparator 'DoubleType'. Available functions: bytes, integer, long, > lexicaluuid, timeuuid, utf8, ascii, countercolumn. > > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "get X as LongType" will give you the bytes in that column value >> interpreted as a long. >> >> So it did exactly what you asked it to do :) >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Sameer Farooqui >> <cassandral...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I wrote some data to a standard column family (using Hector) with ASCII >> > row-key, Long column name and Double column value. >> > >> > The CLI doesn't seem to have a double data type to interpret the column >> > value for display. >> > >> > [default@DemoKS] get >> > DemoCF[ascii('ABC_100000000020')][long(20090101000000)] >> > as LongType; >> > => (column=0000124597556740, value=4629084924887308954, >> > timestamp=1310144024947000) >> > >> > But that value is not exactly correct. It should be: 29.813332976331914 >> > >> > >> > This is how I do the read in Hector: >> > >> > ColumnQuery<String, Long, Double> columnQuery = >> > HFactory.createColumnQuery(keyspace, ss, ls, ds); >> > >> > >> > >> > columnQuery.setColumnFamily("DemoCF").setKey("ABC_100000000020").setName(20090101000000L); >> > >> > QueryResult<HColumn<Long, Double>> result = >> > columnQuery.execute(); >> > >> > System.out.println("Query result: " + result.get()); >> > >> > >> > Is there a equivalent for that in Cassandra CLI? >> > >> > - Sameer >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support >> http://www.datastax.com > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com