check the help for the assume statement in the cli. If the CF has the key_validation_class set to AsciiType the CLI should do the right thing. Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17/08/2011, at 6:02 PM, Yang wrote: > [default@mykeyspace] list myCF; > Using default limit of 100 > ------------------- > RowKey: 49505f4652 > => (counter=00040000ffffc77581888c00, value=161326) > => (counter=00040001ffffc77581888c00, value=161326) > > > here the Rowkey is actually ascii encoding for "IP_FR", > > for "get" command we could specify "ascii(hex_string)" in order to let > cli know how to serialize the row key, > is there a way to let cli display the row key in the form "IP_FR" ?? > > > Thanks > Yang
