[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-2231) Add CompositeType comparer to the comparers provided in org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal

["Sylvain Lebresne (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sylvain Lebresne updated CASSANDRA-2231:
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    Attachment: 0001-Add-compositeType-and-DynamicCompositeType-v2.patch

Rebased and updated patch attached. The new patch use -1, 0, 1 for the end-of-component. It also fixes some issue I add fixed in CASSANDRA-2355 but really belong here, namely handling the parameters of the composite types when deflating CFMetadata into Avro, etc...

This still a patch against 0.7. I think this is really not very disruptive and could go into 0.7, but I can rebase to 0.8 otherwise. The only problem I can think of is if someone already have a custom comparator named CompositeType or DynamicCompositeType, but that's a problem we face each time we add a new comparator.

> Add CompositeType comparer to the comparers provided in org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2231
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2231
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Contrib
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.3
>            Reporter: Ed Anuff
>            Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.7.5
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>         Attachments: 0001-Add-compositeType-and-DynamicCompositeType-v2.patch, CompositeType-and-DynamicCompositeType.patch, edanuff-CassandraCompositeType-1e253c4.zip
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> CompositeType is a custom comparer that makes it possible to create comparable composite values out of the basic types that Cassandra currently supports, such as Long, UUID, etc.  This is very useful in both the creation of custom inverted indexes using columns in a skinny row, where each column name is a composite value, and also when using Cassandra's built-in secondary index support, where it can be used to encode the values in the columns that Cassandra indexes.  One scenario for the usage of these is documented here: http://www.anuff.com/2010/07/secondary-indexes-in-cassandra.html.  Source for contribution is attached and has been previously maintained on github here: https://github.com/edanuff/CassandraCompositeType

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