Change your comparator to utf8type.
On 22-May-2012 4:32 PM, "Roshan Dawrani" <roshandawr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Cassandra 0.8.5 and am suddenly noticing some strange behavior. I
> run a "create column family" command with some column meta-data and it runs
> fine, but when I do "describe keyspace", it shows me different column names
> for those index columns.
>
> a) Here is what I run:
> "create column family UserTemplate with comparator=BytesType and
> column_metadata=[{*column_name: userid*, validation_class: UTF8Type,
> index_type: KEYS, index_name: TemplateUserIdIdx}, {*column_name: type*,
> validation_class: UTF8Type, index_type: KEYS, index_name:
> TemplateTypeIdx}];"
>
> b) This is what "describe keyspace" shows:
> ColumnFamily: UserTemplate
> Key Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType
> ...
> ...
> Built indexes: [UserTemplate.TemplateTypeIdx,
> UserTemplate.TemplateUserIdIdx]
> Column Metadata:
> *Column Name: ffffff*
> Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
> Index Name: TemplateUserIdIdx
> Index Type: KEYS
> *Column Name: 0dfffaff*
> Validation Class: org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type
> Index Name: TemplateTypeIdx
> Index Type: KEYS
>
> Does anyone see why this must be happening? I have created many such
> column families before and never run into this issue.
>
> --
> Roshan
> http://roshandawrani.wordpress.com/
>
>
