[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-242) Implement method to "evenly" split a Range

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-242:
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Back when we discussed this in IRC, I think we concluded that although there is no way to split a Range, splitting a group of tokens and taking the median is almost as useful.

> Implement method to "evenly" split a Range
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-242
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-242
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Stu Hood
>
> Two tickets currently depend on being able to deterministically split a Range object into two "even" Ranges.
> This can be accomplished with RandomPartitioner/BigIntegerToken by taking the average of the tokens, but the OrderPreservingPartitioner/StringToken implementation uses a Java Collator to define the sort order of Tokens, which means that they are not necessarily sorted in byte/char order.
> Collator.getCollationKey(String).toByteArray() gets you a sortable byte array, but there is no publicly accessible API for converting a similar byte array back into a String.

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