Re: Composite row keys with SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter for Cassandra 1.0?

[aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>]

I think you want the o.a.c.db.marshal.TypeParser. 

You can pass a CLI format composite type to the parse() func. 

It's in 1.0X

Cheers

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Aaron Morton
Freelance Developer
@aaronmorton
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On 1/09/2012, at 6:44 AM, Jeff Schmidt <ja...@535consulting.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I'm using DataStax Enterprise 2.1, which is based on Cassandra 1.0.10 from what I can tell.  For my project, I perform a content build that generates a number of SSTables using SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter. These are loaded using either JMX or sstableloader depending on the environment.
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> I want to introduce a composite row key into some of the generated SSTables.  Also, I will be referring to these keys by using composite column names.
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> I can define the desired composite time and provide it to the SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter constructor:
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> 		List<AbstractType<?>> compositeList = new ArrayList<AbstractType<?>>();
> 		compositeList.add(UTF8Type.instance)
> 		compositeList.add(UTF8Type.instance)
> 		compositeUtf8Utf8Type = CompositeType.getInstance(compositeList)
> 		
> 		articleWriter = new SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter(
> 			cassandraOutputDir,
> 			"IngenuityContent",
> 			"Articles",
> 			compositeUtf8Utf8Type,
> 			null,
> 			64)	
> 
> I then figured I could use compositeUtf8Utf8Type when creating composite row keys and column names of the kind I require.  Cassandra 1.1.x introduces the CompositeType.Builder class for creating actual composite values, but that's not available to me.  I've also  seen examples of using Hector's Composite to create composite values.
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> But, I need to create these values using the various classes within Cassandra 1.0 itself to work with SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter. For that, I'm not finding any examples on how one does that.
> 
> As far as I can tell, composite columns at least have been around since Cassandra 0.8.x?  Is there the support I need in Cassandra 1.0.x?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Jeff
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> Jeff Schmidt
> 535 Consulting
> jas@535consulting.com
> http://www.535consulting.com
> (650) 423-1068
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