[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-3281) Add an AbstractType anytype which stores meta data on a per column basis

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

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-3281:
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bq. I really think we should have client libraries break blobs up into native C* fields, rather than creating a pseudo-supercolumn construct

Still agree with this; also relevant that CQL3 collections solve a large part of this in a more-performant fashion.  (E.g., you can append a new Map entry without rewriting the whole collection.)
                
> Add an AbstractType anytype which stores meta data on a per column basis
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-3281
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3281
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Edward Capriolo
>            Priority: Minor
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> A pet project of mine is an AbstractType for Cassandra that stores metadata of the type in the column. https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/Cassandra-AnyType
> I described my use case any my design decisions here. https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/Cassandra-AnyType/blob/master/README . The biggest cases were needing to support null and '' as keys, column names, and column values, however I also think the technique used to serialize Java Objects as JSON but compare as a Java object is novel. 
> Side node: (The AbstractType interface has changed multiple times between 0.6.X, 0.7.X, and 1.0.0-beta. I hope it stabilizes! ) 
> If people would like AnyType (or parts of it ) incorporated into Cassandra that would be great. I am willing to tweak change it based on other peoples ideas.

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