Re: How should clients handle the user defined types in 2.1?

2014-02-25 Thread Theo Hultberg
thanks for the high level description of the format, I'll see if I can make a stab at implementing support for custom types now. and maybe I should take all of the reverse engineering I've done of the type encoding and decoding and send a pull request for the protocol spec, or write an appendix.

Re: How should clients handle the user defined types in 2.1?

2014-02-25 Thread Michael Dykman
Please do. I too am working at a driver implementation and would be delighted to be spared the research. On Feb 25, 2014 11:29 AM, Theo Hultberg t...@iconara.net wrote: thanks for the high level description of the format, I'll see if I can make a stab at implementing support for custom types

How should clients handle the user defined types in 2.1?

2014-02-24 Thread Theo Hultberg
(I posted this on the client-dev list the other day, but that list seems dead so I'm cross posting, sorry if it's the wrong thing to do) Hi, Is there any documentation on how CQL clients should handle the new user defined types coming in 2.1? There's nothing in the protocol specification on how

Re: How should clients handle the user defined types in 2.1?

2014-02-24 Thread Ben Hood
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Theo Hultberg t...@iconara.net wrote: (I posted this on the client-dev list the other day, but that list seems dead so I'm cross posting, sorry if it's the wrong thing to do) I didn't even realize there was a list for driver implementors - is this used at all?

Re: How should clients handle the user defined types in 2.1?

2014-02-24 Thread Theo Hultberg
There hasn't been any activity (apart from my question) since december, and only sporadic activity before that, so I think it's essentially dead. http://www.mail-archive.com/client-dev@cassandra.apache.org/ T# On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Ben Hood 0x6e6...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb