Yep, *MetaData stuff is what I was looking for thanks for the pointer.
Joe
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote:
> DESCRIBE is not a CQL3 query but a cqlsh specific command, so it won't
> work outside of cqlsh. However, at least if you are using the datastax java
> driver (I don't know for the .Net one but it's probably true there too) you
> can just get the equivalent through the
> Cluster.getMetadadata().getKeyspace(<keyspace_name>) method.
>
> --
> Sylvain
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Joe Greenawalt
> <joe.greenaw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was playing around with the datastax driver today, and I wanted to
>> call "DESCRIBE TABLE ....;". But got a syntax error: line 1:0 no viable
>> alternative at input 'describe'. Is that functionality just not
>> implemented in the 1.0 driver?
>>
>> If that's true:
>> Does anyone know if its planned?
>> Is there another way to get a description of the table?
>>
>> If it's not true, does anyone know where I could be doing something wrong?
>> I have a good connection, and I'm simply running
>> session.execute("DESCRIBE TABLE {keyspaceName}.{tableName};");
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>>
>
