Naming variables in a prepared statement in the DataStax Java driver

[Clint Kelly]

Folks,

Is there a way to name the variables in a prepared statement when using the
DataStax Java driver?

For example, instead of doing:

ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ... // some application logic
String query = "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = ?";
PreparedStatement preparedStatement = session.prepare(query);
BoundStatement boundStatement = preparedStatement.bind(byteBuffer);

I'd like to be able to be able to name the fields indicated by the ?s,
e.g.,:

ByteBuffer byteBuffer = ... // some application logic
String query = "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = ?<bar>"; // I just made up
this syntax
PreparedStatement preparedStatement = session.prepare(query);
BoundStatement boundStatement = preparedStatement.bind("bar", byteBuffer);

Looking at the DataStax API docs, it seems like there should be a way to be
able to do this, but I can't tell for sure.

This would be particularly useful when I have some application logic in
which I have very long queries with lots of bound variables and then
sometimes extend them with different clauses.  Right now this code gets
very verbose, because I cannot figure out how to break up my "bind"
statements to bind different values to a bound statement in separate
statements.  In other words, I'd like to be able to do something like:

    BoundStatement boundStatement = // Create from a prepared statement
    boundStatement = boundStatement.bind( ... ); // Bind all of the values
that I use in every flavor of this query
    if ( ... )  {
         boundStatement = boundStatement.bind("some field", someVal);
    else {
         boundStatement = boundStatement.bind("other field", otherVal);

Thanks!

Best regards,
Clint