[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-12216) TTL Reading And Writing is Asymmetric

["Russell Spitzer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Russell Spitzer commented on CASSANDRA-12216:
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Just checking in to see if anything more is needed from me

> TTL Reading And Writing is Asymmetric 
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-12216
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12216
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: CQL
>            Reporter: Russell Spitzer
>            Assignee: Russell Spitzer
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.x
>
>         Attachments: 12216-3.7-2.txt, 12216-3.7.txt, 12216-trunk.patch
>
>
> There is an inherent asymmetry in the way TTL's are read and Written. 
> An `TTL` of 0 when written becomes a `null` in C*
> When read, this `TTL` becomes a `null` 
> The `null` cannot be written back to C* as `TTL`
> This means that end users attempting to copy tables with TTL have to do manual mapping of the null TTL values to 0 to avoid NPE. This is a bit onerous when C* seems to have an internal logic that 0 == NULL. I don't think C* should return values which are not directly insertable back to C*. 
> Even with the advent CASSANDRA-7304 this still remains a problem that the User needs to be aware of and take care of.
> The following prepared statement
> {code}
> INSERT INTO test.table2 (k,v) (?,?) USING TTL: ? 
> {code}
> Will throw NPEs unless we specifically check that the value to be bound to TTL is not null.
> I think we should discuss whether `null` should be treated as 0 in TTL for prepared statements. 



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