You don't have a key type defined in your schema, so the cli is showing you the bytes, in hex notation. Look at "help update column family" for how to add the uuid key validator.
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Ruby Stevenson <ruby...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all > > I am using UUID as my row key, and when examine it in CLI, I was expecting > something like this that get printed: > > b2f0da40-ec2c-11e0-0000-242d50cf1fbf > > instead, I am seeing something like this: > > 6338663638383430656264623131653030303030323432643530636631666666 > > How does this get transformed? > > thanks > > Ruby > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com