While trying to play around with 1.1.1 and secondary indexes I just noticed something odd in cassandra-cli. Example straight from the README:
--> show Mr. Smith holger>cassandra-cli [..] [default@Users] list users; Using default limit of 100 Using default column limit of 100 ------------------- RowKey: jsmith => (column=first, value=John, timestamp=1339507271651000) => (column=last, value=Smith, timestamp=1339507280745000) 1 Row Returned. Elapsed time: 0 msec(s). --> Hello Mr. Smith with no age. --> You should be 64 years old: [default@Users] set Users[jsmith][age] = long(64); Value inserted. Elapsed time: 16 msec(s). [default@Users] list users; Using default limit of 100 Using default column limit of 100 ------------------- RowKey: jsmith => (column=age, value=64, timestamp=1339513585914000) => (column=first, value=John, timestamp=1339507271651000) => (column=last, value=Smith, timestamp=1339507280745000) 1 Row Returned. Elapsed time: 0 msec(s). [default@Users] --> That worked, as expected. Exit & restart the cli holger>cassandra-cli [..] [default@Users] list users; Using default limit of 100 Using default column limit of 100 ------------------- RowKey: jsmith => (column=age, value= @, timestamp=1339513585914000) => (column=first, value=John, timestamp=1339507271651000) => (column=last, value=Smith, timestamp=1339507280745000) 1 Row Returned. Elapsed time: 78 msec(s). [default@Users] // age=@ you say? I understand of course that since the default validation class is set to UTF8 I should have inserted '64' as age and not the long(64) as given in the README - probably an oversight/bug/typo. The README uses 42 as value, which results in a * as output. To verify the behaviour I used 64, which is the ASCII value of @. What I find more curious is that the cli displays the value in human-readable form immediately after insertion, yet a new session displays it in "native" form (as it should). Should it not always display the value according to the validation class, i.e. show the @ immediately after insertion? thanks, Holger
