[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6212) TimestampType doesn't support pre-epoch long

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

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6212:
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Can you take a stab at this, Mikhail?

> TimestampType doesn't support pre-epoch long
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6212
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6212
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: API, Core
>            Reporter: Simon Hopkin
>            Assignee: Mikhail Stepura
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.0.2
>
>
> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TimestampType.dateStringToTimestamp() contains a regular expression that checks to see if the String argument contains a number.  If so it parses it as a long timestamp.  However pre-epoch timestamps are negative and the code doesn't account for this so it tries to parse it as a formatted Date.  A tweak to the regular expression in TimestampType.dateStringToTimestamp() would solve this issue.
> I could use formatted date strings instead, but the TimestampType date parser uses ISO8601 patterns which would cause the timestamp to be rounded to the nearest second.
> Currently I get the following exception message:
> unable to coerce '-86400000' to a  formatted date (long)



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