Yep, for example, I created a simple users table and then issued a delete with an IF statement. i.e
CREATE TABLE users ( user_name varchar, password varchar, state varchar, PRIMARY KEY (user_name) ); INSERT INTO users (user_name, password, state) VALUES ('jsmith', 'ch@ngem3a', 'alive'); DELETE password FROM users WHERE user_name = 'jsmith' IF state = 'alive'; And note that the delete won't go through if the state is something else, i.e. 'dead', as expected. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:58 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > > I presume it can be done because conditional deletes work through CQL3. > Out of interest where do you have an example or a reference for this? > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Cassandra Consultant > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 26/07/2013, at 8:07 AM, Kalpana Suraesh <ks4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been playing around with CAS (compare-and-swap) in the 2.0 beta, > using the Thrift API. I can't at all figure out how to delete columns while > using CAS, however. I'm able to update/insert columns by adding them to the > list of updates that is passed as a parameter to > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra.Client#cas(). But there seems to be > no indication as to how to delete. > > > > I presume it can be done because conditional deletes work through CQL3. > However, I'm interested in using Hector/Java (particularly as CQL3 does not > yet allow batched conditional statements). > > > > Any help would be great! > > > > Thanks, > > Kalpana > > -- -- Kalpana Suraesh