Answering myself: it seems we can't have any non type 1 UUIDs in column
names. I used the UTF8 comparator and saved my UUIDs as strings, it worked.

2012/10/29 Marcelo Elias Del Valle <mvall...@gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
>     I am using ColumnFamilyInputFormat the same way it's described in this
> example:
> https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCount.java#L215
>
>     I have been able to successfully process data in cassandra by using
> hadoop. However, as this solution doesn't allow me to filter which data in
> cassandra I want to filter, I decided to create a query column family to
> list data I want to process in hadoop. This column family is as follows:
>
> row key: YYYYMM
> column name: UUID - user ID
> column value: timestamp - last processed date
>
>      The problem is, when I run hadoop, I get the exception bellow. Is
> there any limitation in having UUIDs as column names? I am generating my
> user IDs with java.util.UUID.randomUUID() for now. I could change the
> method later, but only type 1 UUIDs are 16 bits longer, isn't it?
>
>
> java.lang.RuntimeException: InvalidRequestException(why:UUIDs must be
> exactly 16 bytes)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader$StaticRowIterator.maybeInit(ColumnFamilyRecordReader.java:391)
>  at
> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader$StaticRowIterator.computeNext(ColumnFamilyRecordReader.java:397)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader$StaticRowIterator.computeNext(ColumnFamilyRecordReader.java:323)
>  at
> com.google.common.collect.AbstractIterator.tryToComputeNext(AbstractIterator.java:143)
> at
> com.google.common.collect.AbstractIterator.hasNext(AbstractIterator.java:138)
>  at
> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader.nextKeyValue(ColumnFamilyRecordReader.java:188)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewTrackingRecordReader.nextKeyValue(MapTask.java:532)
>  at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.MapContext.nextKeyValue(MapContext.java:67)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:143)
>  at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:764)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:370)
>  at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:212)
> Caused by: InvalidRequestException(why:UUIDs must be exactly 16 bytes)
>  at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$get_range_slices_result.read(Cassandra.java:12254)
> at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78)
>  at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.recv_get_range_slices(Cassandra.java:683)
> at
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.get_range_slices(Cassandra.java:667)
>  at
> org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader$StaticRowIterator.maybeInit(ColumnFamilyRecordReader.java:356)
> ... 11 more
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Marcelo Elias Del Valle
> http://mvalle.com - @mvallebr
>



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http://mvalle.com - @mvallebr

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