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> I tried to wrap 'name' to bytes('name'), but it would throw "can not parse
> FUNCTION_CALL as hex bytes", seems this does not work.
What was the statement you used and what was the error.
> So the stored bytes are the same, right?
Yes.
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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Consultant
New Zealand
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 24/03/2013, at 11:53 PM, Xu Renjie <xrjxrjxrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:45 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote:
>> But a error is thrown saying "can not parse name as hex bytes".
> If the comparator is Bytes then the column names need to be a hex string.
>
> The easiest thing to do is create a CF where the comparator is UTF8Type so
> you can use string column names.
>
> And currently our column families are all of Bytes, since Cassandra cannot
> update the comparator, it's not easy to change to UTF8Type.
> I tried to wrap 'name' to bytes('name'), but it would throw "can not parse
> FUNCTION_CALL as hex bytes", seems this does not work.
>> just that the UTF8Type needs to be validated before storing the data into
>> database and BytesType need not to?
>
> It takes *very* little additional effort.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Consultant
> New Zealand
>
> @aaronmorton
> http://www.thelastpickle.com
>
> On 23/03/2013, at 12:10 AM, Xu Renjie <xrjxrjxrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sorry, continued:
>> I have created a column family User with no parameters specified, just
>> create column family User.
>> Then I checked that the default comparator is BytesType.
>>
>> Then I want to create secondary index on one column like below:
>> update column family User with column_metadata=[{column_name:name,
>> validation_class:BytesType, index_type:0}];
>> But a error is thrown saying "can not parse name as hex bytes".
>>
>> So I wonder under this situation, is it possible to create index using
>> cassandra-cli, if possible, how?
>>
>> Furthermore, I wonder what's the difference of type BytesType and UTF8Type
>> and other types underlying.
>> If I store string 'name' into database, do they have the same internal bytes
>> stored in Cassandra,
>> just that the UTF8Type needs to be validated before storing the data into
>> database and BytesType need not to?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Xu Renjie <xrjxrjxrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, guys:
>> I am new to Cassandra. I am currently using cassandra-cli(version 1.1.6).
>>
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