Hi Edward,
My understanding was that thrift supports a number of protocols (binary
being one of them). I don't understand what switching to "binary protocol"
but not using thrift means. Can you point me to any code examples?
Regards,
Stuart
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Having to catch the exception and parse it is a bit ugly, however this is
> close to what someone might do with an SQLException to determine if the
> error was transient etc. If there is an error code it is possible that it
> could be added as an optional property of the InvalidRequestException in
> future versions.
>
> Switching to the "binany protocol" is not a method in thrift, it means
> your not using thrift at all.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Stuart Broad <stu...@moogsoft.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply - I was already using the prepare/execute cql
>> methods that you suggested. My problem is that these methods 'mask' the
>> PreparedQueryNotFoundException as an InvalidRequestException. At present I
>> catch the InvalidRequestException (when cassandra has been re-started) and
>> check the message text to figure out if I need to rebuild the prepared
>> queries (rather than building each time I call).
>>
>> Sylvain had suggested that I use the binary protocol as the exceptions
>> are more explicit so I am trying to determine how this can be done (I don't
>> see any obvious methods other than the cql ones for calling prepared
>> statements).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Edward Capriolo
>> <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thrift has a prepare_cql call which returns an ID. Then it has an
>>> exececute_cql call which takes the id and a map or variable bindings.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Stuart Broad <stu...@moogsoft.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I just realised that the binary protocol is the low-level thrift api
>>>> that I was originally using (Cassandra.Client>> get / insert ...). How can
>>>> a prepared statement be called through the thrift api (i.e. not the cql
>>>> methods)?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Stuart Broad <stu...@moogsoft.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sylvain,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your response. I am handling the
>>>>> 'PreparedQueryNotFoundException' more for the case of a cassandra re-start
>>>>> (rather then expecting to build 100000 statements).
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not familiar with the binary protocol - which class/methods
>>>>> should I look at?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <
>>>>> sylv...@datastax.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In thrift, a lot of exceptions (like PreparedQueryNotFoundException)
>>>>>> are simply returned as InvalidRequestException. The reason for that was a
>>>>>> mix of not wanting to change the thrift API too much and because we
>>>>>> didn't
>>>>>> knew how to return a lot of different exception with thrift without
>>>>>> making
>>>>>> it horrible to work with. So you'll probably have to parse strings here
>>>>>> indeed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This will be cleaner/less fragile if you use the binary protocol as
>>>>>> exceptions are more fined grained there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Though taking a step back (and without saying that you shouldn't
>>>>>> handle the case where a query is not prepared on the node you contact),
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> you're really considering preparing more than 100000 statements, I'd
>>>>>> suggest that it might be worth benchmarking whether using prepared
>>>>>> statements in your case is really going to be worth the trouble. Just
>>>>>> saying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sylvain
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Stuart Broad
>>>>>> <stu...@moogsoft.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Sorin,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The PreparedQueryNotFoundException is not thrown from
>>>>>>> Cassandra.Client>>execute_prepared_cql3_query method. I created some
>>>>>>> prepared statements and then re-started cassandra and received the
>>>>>>> following exception:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> InvalidRequestException(why: Prepared query with ID 1124421588 not
>>>>>>> found (either the query was not prepared on this host (maybe the host
>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>> been restarted?) or you have prepared more than 100000 queries and
>>>>>>> queries
>>>>>>> 1124421588 has been evicted from the internal cache))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The best I have been able to come up with is the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> try {
>>>>>>> client.execute_prepared_cql3_query(psId, bindValues,
>>>>>>> ..);
>>>>>>> } catch (InvalidRequestException invEx) {
>>>>>>> String why = invEx.getWhy();
>>>>>>> CLogger.logger().warning(why);
>>>>>>> if(why.startsWith("Prepared query with ID")) {
>>>>>>> rebuildPreparedStatement(preparedStatement);
>>>>>>> client.execute_prepared_cql3_query(psId,
>>>>>>> bindValues, ..);
>>>>>>> } else {
>>>>>>> throw invEx;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Obviously this is pretty fragile and would break if the cassandra
>>>>>>> message was changed...but it least it works for now!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Sorin Manolache
>>>>>>> <sor...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2013-04-19 13:57, Stuart Broad wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am using Cassandra.Client
>>>>>>>>> prepare_cql3_query/execute_**prepared_cql3_query to create and
>>>>>>>>> run some
>>>>>>>>> prepared statements. It is working well but I am unclear as to
>>>>>>>>> how long
>>>>>>>>> the server side 'caches' the prepared statements. Should a
>>>>>>>>> prepared
>>>>>>>>> statement be prepared for every new Cassandra.Client? Based on my
>>>>>>>>> limited testing it seems like I can create some prepared
>>>>>>>>> statements in
>>>>>>>>> one Cassandra.Client and use in another but I am not sure how
>>>>>>>>> reliable/lasting this is i.e. If I called the prepared statement
>>>>>>>>> again
>>>>>>>>> the next day would it still exist? What about if cassandra was
>>>>>>>>> re-started?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> _Background:_
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am creating prepared statements for batch updates of pre-defined
>>>>>>>>> lengths (e.g. 10000, 1000, 500, 250, 50, 10, 1) and wanted to know
>>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>>> these could just be set up once. We felt that using the prepared
>>>>>>>>> statements was easier than escaping values within a CQL statement
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> probably more performant.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've looked in Cassandra's code (v1.2.3). The cache of prepared
>>>>>>>> statements has a size of 100,000. So if you prepare more than 100
>>>>>>>> thousand
>>>>>>>> statements, the least recently used ones will vanish. You'll get the
>>>>>>>> exception PreparedQueryNotFoundException**, code 0x2500.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Sorin
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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