>> Yes, i understand that. Reason why i am asking is, with this i need to split >> them to get actual column name using ":" as a seperator. The ":" is a artefact of the cassandra-cli, nothing something you will have to deal with via the thrift API. Internally we do not store the values with ":" separators.
Any idiomatic API will take care of parsing the raw wire format, see the pycassa example here... http://pycassa.github.com/pycassa/assorted/composite_types.html Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 18/10/2012, at 2:58 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> wrote: >> Yes, i understand that. Reason why i am asking is, with this i need to split >> them to get actual column name using ":" as a seperator. >> Though i did not try it yet, but wondering if column name is like >> "alliance:movement", then how do it compute it? > > You've lost me, sorry. > > -- > Sylvain > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Vivek Mishra <mishra.v...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> column name will be "2012-07-24:2:alliance_involvement" or >>>> "alliance_involvement"? >>> >>> The former. Though let's clarify that >>> "2012-07-24:2:alliance_involvement" is the string representation of a >>> composite name (i.e. one compatible with CompositeType) for display by >>> the cli. What you will get is a composite containing 3 components, the >>> first will be the string '2012-07-24', the second one will be the int >>> 2 and the last one will be the string 'alliance_involvement'. >>> >>> -- >>> Sylvain >>> >>>> >>>> -Vivek >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Sylvain Lebresne >>>> <sylv...@datastax.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Vivek Mishra <mishra.v...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Thanks Sylvain. I missed it. If i try to access these via thrift API, >>>>>> what >>>>>> will be the column names? >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure I understand the question. The cli output is pretty much >>>>> what you get via the thrift API. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Sylvain >>>> >>>> >> >>
