Ok, I just realized the parameter should not be called ":limit" :-)
Also I upgraded my Java Driver from 2.1.6 to 2.1.9. Both, TTL and limit, work fine now. Sorry again for the confusion. cheers, Christian On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:19 PM, horschi <hors...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, I just realized I made a mistake with the TTL query: > > The TTL has to be specified before the set. Like this: > update mytable using ttl :timetolive set data=:data where ts=:ts and > randkey=:randkey > > And this of course works nicely. Sorry for the confusion. > > > Nevertheless, I don't think this is the issue with my "select ... limit" > querys. But I will verify this and also try the workaround. > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:08 PM, horschi <hors...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Nick, >> >> I will try your workaround. Thanks a lot. >> >> I was not expecting the Java-Driver to have a bug, because in the Jira >> Ticket (JAVA-54) it says "not a problem". So i assumed there is nothing to >> do to support it :-) >> >> kind regards, >> Christian >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Nicholas Wilson < >> nicholas.wil...@realvnc.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Christian, >>> >>> >>> I ran into this problem last month; after some chasing I thought it was >>> possibly a bug in the Datastax driver, which I'm also using. The CQL >>> protocol itself supports dynamic TTLs fine. >>> >>> >>> One workaround that seems to work is to use an unnamed bind marker for >>> the TTL ('?') and then set it using the "[ttl]" reserved name as the bind >>> marker name ('setLong("[ttl]", myTtl)'), which will set the correct field >>> in the bound statement. >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* horschi <hors...@gmail.com> >>> *Sent:* 08 March 2016 13:52 >>> *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org >>> *Subject:* Dynamic TTLs / limits still not working in 2.2 ? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> according to CASSANDRA-4450 >>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4450> it should be >>> fixed, but I still can't use dynamic TTLs or limits in my CQL queries. >>> >>> Query: >>> update mytable set data=:data where ts=:ts and randkey=:randkey using >>> ttl :timetolive >>> >>> Exception: >>> Caused by: com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.SyntaxError: line 1:138 >>> missing EOF at 'using' (...:ts and randkey=:randkey [using] ttl...) >>> at >>> com.datastax.driver.core.Responses$Error.asException(Responses.java:100) >>> >>> I am using Cassandra 2.2 (using Datastax java driver 2.1.9) and I still >>> see this, even though the Jira ticket states fixVersion 2.0. >>> >>> Has anyone used this successfully? Am I doing something wrong or is >>> there still a bug? >>> >>> kind regards, >>> Christian >>> >>> >>> Tickets: >>> https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/JAVA-54 >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4450 >>> >>> >>> >> >